The Complete Fourteen-Volume Set of Bauhausbücher

James Prestini, Berkeley, CA
Acquired directly from the estate of the above by the present owner, 2003

Hans M. Wingler, The Bauhaus:  Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago, Cambridge, MA, 1978, pp. 446-447
Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, Bauhaus 1919-1933:  Workshops for Modernity, New York, 2009, p. 197

1. Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Architektur, 1925 -original binding, without jacket -inscription signed "Walter Gropius/berlin july 28" and signed in pencil "R Neutra 835 Kings Rd" 2. Paul Klee, Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch, 1925 -original binding, without jacket 3. Adolf Meyer, Ein Versuchshaus des Bauhauses in Weimar: Haus am Horn, 1923 -cover design by Adolf Meyer -rebound, with jacket 4. Oskar Schlemmer, Die Bühne im Bauhaus, 1924 -original binding, without jacket 5. Piet Mondrian, Neue Gestaltung, n.d. -rebound, with jacket 6. Grundbegriffe der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst, 1924? -cover by Theo van Doesburg -rebound, with jacket 7. Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstätten, 1925 -introduction by Walter Gropius -original binding, without jacket -title page inscribed in red ink, "Marienne Feb/von K.S." 8.Malerei, Photographi, Film, Moholy Nagy -original binding, without jacket -with a book plate printed "ROBERT/MARCEAU," flyleaf inscribed "Jean le Corbeille/Boston 1950" 9. Punkt und Linie zu Fläche, Wassily Kandinsky, copyright 1926 with later forward by Kandinsky dated 1928 -with original binding and jacket, protected with plastic jacket, lacking slipcase 10. Holländische Architektur, authored by J.J.P Oud, cover by László Moholy-Nagy, 1926 -with original binding and jacket, protected with plastic jacket 11. Die Gegenstandslose, Kasimir Malevich (printed Malewitsch), cover by Moholy-Nagy, 1927 -original binding, without jacket 12. Bauhausbauten Dessau, Walter Gropius editor, 1930 -cover by László Moholy-Nagy -rebound -with jacket secured to paper 13. Kubismus, Albert Gleizes, cover by László Moholy-Nagy, 1928 -rebound, without jacket 14. Von Material zu Architektur, László Moholy-Nagy, 1929 -original binding, without jacket
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The Bauhausbücher ("Bauhaus books") were published between 1925 and 1930 under the editorial direction of Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy. 

The set offered here was assembled over time by James Prestini, the influential modernist woodturner and professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is responsible for the four contemporary bindings and thirteen custom-made slipcases.  The first volume bears an inscription by Walter Gropius, and was formerly in the collection of Richard Neutra. 

1. Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Architektur, 1925
-original binding, without jacket
-inscription signed "Walter Gropius/berlin july 28" and signed in pencil "R Neutra 835 Kings Rd"

2. Paul Klee, Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch, 1925
-original binding, without jacket

3. Adolf Meyer, Ein Versuchshaus des Bauhauses in Weimar: Haus am Horn, 1923
-cover design by Adolf Meyer
-rebound, with jacket

4. Oskar Schlemmer, Die Bühne im Bauhaus, 1924
-original binding, without jacket

5. Piet Mondrian, Neue Gestaltung, n.d.
-rebound, with jacket

6. Grundbegriffe der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst, 1924?
-cover by Theo van Doesburg
-rebound, with jacket

7. Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstätten, 1925
-introduction by Walter Gropius
-original binding, without jacket
-title page inscribed in red ink, "Marienne Feb/von K.S."

8.Malerei, Photographi, Film, Moholy Nagy
-original binding, without jacket
-with a book plate printed "ROBERT/MARCEAU," flyleaf inscribed "Jean le Corbeille/Boston 1950"

9. Punkt und Linie zu Fläche, Wassily Kandinsky, copyright 1926 with later forward by Kandinsky dated 1928
-with original binding and jacket, protected with plastic jacket, lacking slipcase

10.  Holländische Architektur, authored by J.J.P Oud, cover by László Moholy-Nagy, 1926
-with original binding and jacket, protected with plastic jacket

11.  Die Gegenstandslose, Kasimir Malevich (printed Malewitsch), cover by Moholy-Nagy, 1927
-original binding, without jacket

12. Bauhausbauten Dessau, Walter Gropius editor, 1930
-cover by László Moholy-Nagy
-rebound
-with jacket secured to paper

13. Kubismus, Albert Gleizes, cover by László Moholy-Nagy, 1928
-rebound, without jacket

14. Von Material zu Architektur, László Moholy-Nagy, 1929
-original binding, without jacket