MOHOLY-NAGY, Lazlo (1895-1946) and GROPIUS, Walter (1883-1961; editors). Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923. Weimar and Munich: Bauhaus [1923]. 4º (246 x 252mm). Illustrated throughout. Original black boards, printed in red and blue (lacking spine panel, corners and edges rubbed, light soiling). Provenance: 'Berendt' (pencilled signature on the front endpaper).

MOHOLY-NAGY, Lazlo (1895-1946) and GROPIUS, Walter (1883-1961; editors). Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923. Weimar and Munich: Bauhaus [1923]. 4º (246 x 252mm). Illustrated throughout. Original black boards, printed in red and blue (lacking spine panel, corners and edges rubbed, light soiling). Provenance: 'Berendt' (pencilled signature on the front endpaper).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED COMPENDIUM OF BAUHAUS INNOVATIONS TO DATE. Moholy-Nagy began running the photography course in 1923 and the Bauhaus quickly rose to the forefront of experimentation in European modernist photography. With lay-out by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, cover design by Herbert Bayer and contributions by Moholy-Nagy, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Gertrud Grunow, Oskar Schlemmer, Johannes Itten, and others. The 300 copies in English and 300 copies in Russian announced in the colophon were never published.