Edition Schwarze Seite ~ Germany
(Eckhard Froeschlin & Anne Büssow)

Gertrude Stein bookworks
Grimm Fairy Tale books illustrated by Froeschlin and Büssow

Der Ister
By Der Ister
Frankenhardt, Germany: Edition Schwarze Seite, 2009. Edition of 18.

50 x 33 cm closed, extends to 99 cm; 52 unnumbered pages. Five three-page (pullout) etchings and a frontispiece by Eckhard Froeschlin (co-proprietor of Edition Schwarze Seite). Handset in 28 point Bauersche Bodoni type and printed by Froeschlin on Velin d'Arches mould-made paper. Handbound in leather with printed label. Slipcased.

Edition Schwarze Seite: "Hölderlin's Danube river hymn presents the river as a connection between his beloved Suevian region and idealized classical Greece. Istros is the Greek name for the lower Danube. So the river flows over the five three-page foldout etchings as a stream of poetry and water, carrying verses and symbols and figures."
$1900

Canto I
By Ezra Pound
ubersetzt von Eva Hesse
Translated by Eva Hesse
mit radierungen von Eckhard Froeschlin
Etchings by Eckhard Froeschlin
Frankenhardt, Germany: Edition Schwarze Seite, 2001. Edition of 30.

8.25 x 11.75"; 34 pages. Text in English and German. Five etchings by Eckhard Froeschlin. Printed on Czech handmade paper. Case bound in printed paper over board. Slipcased.

Text pages are printed in one side in English with translation on the verso.
$490

elementi
By Maura Del Serra
Frankenhardt, Germany: Edition Schwarze Seite, 1997. Edition of 110.

7.875 x 10.75"; 24 pages.Handset in Italian and German, with six zinc plate prints by Eckhard Froeschlin, on mould paper. Bound in printed stiff wraps. In paper slipcase.

Four poems by Maura del Serra with translation by Christine Koschel and illustrations by Eckhard Froeschlin.

Eckhard Froeschlin: "Maura del Serra is an Italian poetess and professor for Italian language in Florence. I made the book with her non-edited elementi poems for an exhibition I had in Pistoia city where she lives and where I had met her before."

Christine Koschel is a poet as well as a translator. Originally from Breslau she now makes her home in Rome.
$220

A Whole, Ein Ganzes
Text by Gertrude Stein
Frankenhardt, Germany: Edition Schwarze Seite, 2009. Edition of 25.

13.5 x 16.75 x 1.125"; 56 pages. Monotype letterpress. Woodcuts. Printed on Velin d'Arhces, 250 g. paper. Bilingual text in English and German. Bound in illustrated cloth boards with suede spine. Title stamped on spine. Slipcased.

From The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein (London Dalkey Archive Press, 2006). German translation by Lilian Faschlinger and Thomas Priebsch. Woodcut illustrations are by Anne Büssow. Text alternates line by line from English in black to German in grey.

Every one then has
              Jeder hat also in seinem Leben
in their living repeating,
              Widerholung, Widerhoulung von
repeating of every kind
              allem möglichen in sich, ...
of thing in them, ...

$1,900

Wiederholung Ist Was Ich Liebe.
Repeating is What I am Loving.
Nun Also.
So Then.
By Gertrude Stein
Frankenhardt, Germany: Edition Schwarze Seite, 2003. Edition of 25.

13 x 13"; 31 pages. Monotype letterpress. Text in English and German. Printed in two colors on Zerkall mouldmade paper. Case bound with printed paper over boards.

Text from The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein. Illustrations by Anne Büssow. Text alternate line by line: German in black with English underneath in red.

Es gibt als immer Wiederholung, immer wiederholt sich alles, das ist eine Geschichte von jeder Art
There is always then repeating, always everything is repeating, this is a history of every kind of repeating ....

$650

HÄTT ICH DICH, SO WOLLT ICH DICH!
ZEHN MÄRCHEN DER BRÜDER GRIMM
GRAPHIK VON ANNE BÜSSOW
Frankenhardt, Germany: Edition Schwarze Seite, 2006. Edition of 30.

11.5 x 15"; 72 pages. Seven two-page and 15 single-page color woodcuts by Anne Büssow. Text in German. Type: Helvetica 16 point. Printed by Anne Büssow on Velin d'Arches mould-made paper (250 g). Handbound in linen cloth over boards with printed paper label.

Edition Schwarze Seite: "The ten fairy tales chosen by Anne Büssow mostly refer to women and children. In [these tales, included in an early edition by the Brothers Grimm] women are self-confident, bold to their husbands, and children may not appear as kind little beings only. In fact, some stories end with the death of all protagonists. In [later] editions [of Grimm], this type of fairy tale has been censured or totally erased. But in the original version, Hansens Trine escapes her daily [grind] and boredom, [leaving] her house [and going] into the world with pleasure."
$1,300

Sieben Aug Eiene Streich
SIEBEN MÄRCHEN DER BRÜDER GRIMM
GRAPHIK VON ECKHARD FROESCHLIN
Frankenhardt, Germany: Edition Schwarze Seite, 2006. Edition of 30.

11.375 x 15"; 78 pages. Letterpress printed. Text in German. Type: Helvetica 16 point. Includes seven two- or three-page color etchings and seven vignette etchings.

Edition Schwarze Seite: "From the Grimm's collection Eckhard Froeschlin chose seven fairy tales of the tailor type, the hero usually being a poor and thin young man going into the world to fight with giants, to betray the king, and to get the princess at the end." These stories and Froeschlin's color etchings are true to the earliest edition of Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales, not the later sanitized versions.
$1,300