Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics (The Border Lines) by Kurt Schwitters

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 251pp. Quarto [26 cm] Black cloth over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. The bottom edges of the covers are a bit scuffed. The jacket is lightly soiled, faded at the spine, and has a 1" closed tear in the top edge of the rear panel. "My aim is the total Merz art work, which combines all genres into an artistic unity. First I married off single genres. I pasted words and sentences together into poems in such a way that their rhythmic composition created a kind of drawing. The other way around, I pasted together pictures and drawings containing sentences that demand to be read. I drove nails into pictures in such a way that besides the pictorial effect a plastic relief-effect arose. I did this in order to erase the boundaries between the arts." - Kurt Schwitters.

Philadelphia: Temple University, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. About Fine/about fine. 251 pp. Small quarto, cloth. Head of spine very slightly bumped; free back endpaper has a very small chip; internally fine. Dustjacket very slightly bumped at head of spine, otherwise fine.

Very good. Dustcover with sunned areas and sticker over title. Inscribed by and to Roger Cardinal, Dada scholar. To FEP. Annotated nearly to margins with Cardinal's notes. Inside back cover pasted with newspaper article on Kurt Schwitters' Literarische Werk by Rex Last entitled "One Man's Merz"