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San Francisco, Calif.: Wittenborn Art Books, 2014. Recent Publication.. First digital edition, fully searchable PDF on CD-ROM. 534 pages. Edited by Jurg SpillerTranslated by Heinz Norden from 'Unendliche Naturgeschichte' The Documents of Modern Art Series, Vol. 17. This second volume of Klee's notebooks follows on where volume one left off, and comprises essentially the notes and illustrations for the 'General system of pictorial media combined with nature study' on which Klee lectured at the Bauhaus in the winter of 1923/4. It overlaps with and complements the material included in the first volume, but it is not limited to the lecture notes proper for the years 1923/4. Related material, problems and notes from Klee's other papers have also been included where they help to develop particular arguments.During the period at the Bauhaus covered by the two volumes, Klee was preoccupied in his teaching with the same themes, to which he returned again and again, but the emphasis differed, and in this… Read More

Wittenborn Art Books. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First US Edition, First Printing. Published by George Wittenborn, 1973. Quarto. Black cloth boards stamped in green with green endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edge wear, and small tears. A very good copy of this second volume of modern design theory by Paul Klee. 454 pages. ISBN: 0815000405. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

New York: George Wittenborn, Inc., (1973)., (1973).. Very good. - Quarto, 9 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in charcoal boards titled in green on the spine, in a color pictorial black dust wrapper. The edges of the mildly soiled dust wrapper are slightly creased with a couple of short tears to the top edge of the jacket's front panel and minor chipping to the head and tail of its spine. 454 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. There are a couple of small stains to the top corner of the front endpaper. Very good.
First American edition.
Laid in at the front is the 16-page pamphlet for the "Paul Klee Centennial: Prints and Transfer Drawings" January 8 to April 3, 1979 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

(KLEE, PAUL). Klee, Paul. Jurg Spiller, Editor. Translated from the German by Heinz Norden. PAUL KLEE: NOTEBOOKS VOLUME 2 - THE NATURE OF NATURE. New York: George Wittenborn, Inc., 1973. First American Edition. Stout Square 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Very Good/Near Fine. 456pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Published as the seventeenth installment of the Robert Motherwell-edited Wittenborn series "The Documents of Modern Art", this is the second of two volumes of translated writings by the renowned late Swiss artist and Bauhaus instructor Paul Klee. Distilled from over twenty-five hundred pages of text, this massive study beautifully illustrates Klee's ideas on form and artistic creation with reproductions from sketchbooks, drawings and paintings. A most handsome example of the 1973 Wittenborn first edition showing a bit of soiling to the edges of the textblock. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard… Read More

Wittenborn Art Books. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!