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WEBER, MAX. Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts “Primitives is Weber’s second book of poetry (in 1914 he had published ‘Cubist Poems’, un-illustrated, in London). Many years earlier he had first become interested in primitive art, to which the title and the style of the woodcuts both testify. This little-known book is one of the very few American ‘livres de peintres’ published as early as the 1920s.” -The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960, #321.
FIRST
EDITION, one of only 350 numbered copies, SIGNED BY WEBER;
the first
book by the famous Spiral Press
(founded by Joseph Blumenthal and A. George Hoffman). Introduction by
Benjamin de Casseres. With eleven woodcuts by Weber; text printed in Pen
Print Bold on hand-made English paper. In the original modernist binding
after a design by Weber.
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