Rare and Unusual Books

Published: Leipzig, Von Klinkhardt & Biermann,
Date: 1927 (1. bis 5. Tausend), 1st ed.
Description: iv, 75pp, with 166 photo illustrations & plans. Decorative cloth, designed by Johannes Molzahn. 27x19. Faint crockling to end papers, as usual, very, very faint rubbing to corners else nice copy and unusually in the dust wrapper, although this is very fragile with small pieces missing on edges and spine.
Notes: Taut explores the potential of new mass-produced housing methods, then beginning to be employed by Le Corbusier, Oud, May etc (as well as in his own work). As one of the main proponent of Das Neue Bauen, he strongly criticises contemporary orthodox German housing. An influential 1920s work, also notable for its modernist book design. Scarce, particularly as here in the striking dust wrapper.
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Price: £300.00