Title: A Collection of 8 Books by Wilhelm Busch from the Library of Walt Kuhn, Inscribed to Walt Kuhn by His Wife Vera in 1909, the Year of Their Marriage.
Description: Munich: Fr. Bassermann and Braun & Schneider / Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1903-1909). (1903-1909). - The collection consists of the following 8 hardcover books:
1) Wilhelm Busch: Kritik des Herzens. Achte Auflage. Small octavo, 6-1/4 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Bound in cream printed boards titled in red and black. Munchen: Verlag von Fr. Bassermann, 1903. SIGNED "Walt Kuhn / 1903". [4], 84 pages and 4-pages of ads. The binding is broken & soiled and the book is shaken.
2) Wilhelm Busch: Max und Moritz: eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen. 57 Auflage. Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Bound in printed cream boards titled in gray and black, with pictorial ads on the rear cover. Munchen: Verlag von Braun und Schneider, [1909]. INSCRIBED: "To Walt from Vera / Xmas '09". With the WALT KUHN BOOKPLATE. Title & 55 leaves printed on the rectos only. Illustrated with pastel coloring. There are tears in the margins of leaves 1 and 38 & a tiny hole touching an image on leaf 51. The binding is soiled.
3) Wilhelm Busch: Der Fuchs. Die Drachen. Zwei lustige Sachen. Siebente Auflage. Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Bound in pictorial cream boards titled in red and black enhanced with color illustrations. Munchen: Verlag von Fr. Bassermann, 1908. INSCRIBED: "To Walt from HIS WIFE / Xmas '09". Title page, chapter page, 37 numbered leaves printed on the rectos only & 2-pages of ads. Illustrated with 36 colored drawings and 2 colored chapter heads. The covers are soiled otherwise the book is in very good condition.
4) Wilhelm Busch: Die Kuhne Mullerstochter. Der Schreihals. Die prise. Der Oktavausgabe 4. bis 6. Tausend. Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Bound in pictorial cream boards illustrated in black & white on the front board and titled in black. With a pictorial ad on the rear cover. Berlin. Stuttgart. Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, [1909]. INSCRIBED: "To WALT from VERA / Xmas '09". 31 leaves printed on the rectos only & 2-pages of ads. Illustrated in black and white. The front edge of the binding is damaged and the spine is torn. the contents are very good.
5) Wilhelm Busch: Balduin Bahlmann der verhinderte Dichter. 38 bis 40 tausend. Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Bound in blue and white pictorial cloth titled in white on the front cover. Munchen: Verlag von Fr. Bassermann, 1907. INSCRIBED: "To Walt from His Wife / Xmas '09". 74 pages, illustrated in black and white. The covers are a bit soiled but in overall very good condition.
6) Wilhelm Busch: Fipps, der Affe. 44 bis 48 Tausend. Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Bound in brown and white pictorial cloth titled in white on the front cover. Munchen: Fr. Bassermann, 1908. INSCRIBED: "To A Fipps Friend From Another / 1909". Title & 89 pages, illustrated in black and white. Very good condition.
7) Wilhelm Busch: Schein und Sein: Nachgelassene Gedichte. Bound in light gray cloth titled in brown. Munchen: Lothar Joachim Verlag, 1909. INSCRIBED: "To Walt from His Wife / Xmas '09". vii & 95 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. The binding is lightly bumped & soiled with a few small stains to the rear cover. There is a stain to the bottom edge of the book with some minor foxing to the fore-edge. There are small stains to the bottom edges of the first 3 leaves & occasional very light foxing & soiling to a few text pages.
8) Wilhelm Busch:Gernach. Erstes bis funfzehntes Tausend. Bound in brown cloth titled in red and black. Munchen: Lothar Joachim Verlag, 1908. INSCRIBED: "To One Who Appreciates / V.S. 1909". (His wife's maiden name was Vera Spier.) [4], & 62 pages printed on the rectos only with profuse illustrations in black and white. The binding is soiled and there is a tear in the cloth along the front joint. The contents are very good.
Perhaps best remembered for the important role he played in organizing the first Armory Show in New York City in 1913, the American artist Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) studied under Heinrich von Zugel, a member of the Barbizon School. He held his first exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in NYC in 1905, establishing himself as a serious artist as well as a cartoonist. Kuhn joined the faculty of the New York School of Art when it moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey in 1908, but left at the end of the school year, returning to New York where he married Vera Spier in 1909. He had his first solo exhibition in New York that same year. He took part in founding the Association of American Painters and Sculptors which, in 1913, was responsible for the first Armory Show which displayed both European and American modernist art. Kuhn collected German illustrated books of the early 20th century, especially those of the humorist, poet & artist Wilhelm Busch. Good .
Keywords: ILLUSTRATED; VERSES; GERMAN; A COLLECTION OF 8 BOOKS BY WILHELM BUSCH FROM THE LIBRARY OF WALT KUHN, INSCRIBED TO WALT KUHN BY HIS WIFE VERA IN 1909; POETRY; SATIRE; CARICATURE; ILLUSTRATIONS; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; INSCRIBED; INSCRIPTION; ART; ART
- Book number: 98776
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