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Leipzig: Verlag Ernst Wunderlich, 1948. First edition. 4to (29,5x21cm), illustrated card wrappers. Unpaginated 20pp. Text in German. Wrappers show some discoloration and minor soiling. Three small dents on cover. Spine-ends slightly brittle. Pages are toned, but content is clean and unmarked. Overall, in very good condition.
Die Geschichten von Jan und Jon und von ihrem Lotsen-Fisch is a significant postwar children's book by Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp, one of the first women to study at the Bauhaus. Under the guidance of renowned figures like Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky, she defied boundaries by concentrating on decorative and mural painting, despite women typically being limited to "female arts" such as weaving and interior design. Scheper-Berkenkamp also contributed to Oskar Schlemmer's famed Triadisches Ballet, designing sets and costumes for groundbreaking Bauhaus performances.
Originally created for her children in the 1930s, the book was published in post-war Berlin, overcoming… Read More

La Renfermée La Corse is a collaboration between Marie Susini and Chris Marker with a beautiful and bittersweet essay by Susini on her birthplace Corsica, accompanied by Chris Marker's photographs. Both the text and the photographs break with the usual clichés of Corsica as a vacation destination and show a more rugged environment of the island.

At the age of six, Marie Susini was raised by nuns on Corsica, a period in her life that she processed in her first novel Plein Soleil
(1953). She later left Corsica for Marseille and then Paris to escape insularity and the confines of traditional gender roles. Corsica permeates all of Marie Susini's work, which was praised early on by critics such as Albert Béguin.
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Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1981. First and only edition. 6to (28,5x21cm), illustrated boards. 90pp. Front top corner slightly bumped and a tiny bump at back cover turn-in. Very small inscription with pen at front end paper "Corse Sept. 89". Overall, in near fine condition.