rot 43: semiotik

bolzano, bernard

Stuttgart: Edition Rot, 1971. Square 8vo in saddle-stapled wraps printed in red and black, with pages printed in black and white. 54 pp. Text in German. Near fine with trace amounts of rubbing to covers and age toning.

Issue no. 43 of the Rot series, edited by Max Bense and Elisabeth Walther, largely devoted to concrete poetry and the exploration of language and letterforms. This issue featuring a series of essays by Bernard Bolzano.

Each issue has the same German quote by Ernst Bloch on the back cover which translates into ‘There are also red secrets in the world, actually, only red.’. Item #593

Price: $40.00