Second Edition of Curt Glaser's Important Book on Edvard Munch

Curt Glaser. EDVARD MUNCH. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Second edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth-backed yellow paper-covered boards stamped in black with an illustration of a lion on the cover. 4to; [8], 191, [1]pp. With frontispiece with original portrait etching and captioned tissue guard; text followed by (78) full-page b&w plates. Text in German in Old German script.

10 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.

Private Collection

Curt Glaser was a German art historian and collector. He wrote this book on Munch 26 years before the artist's death.

Boards with some rubbing to paper, wear to corners, and a few minor stains; endpapers with light staining, the book plate of Arpad Lang with associated offsetting, and offsetting from newspaper articles on Munch laid in loose; tissue guard with corner fold; cracking at gutter at page 1 with noted separation of the spine from the text block at head; text clean; plates with rare scuff or minor grime otherwise clean; a good copy.