WEBER, Max. Primitives, Poems and Woodcuts. [36] pp. Illustrated with 11 woodcuts by Weber. 8vo., bound in publisher's original decorated boards, in original cardboard slipcase. New York: The Spiral Press, 1926.

A wonderful association copy of this landmark American book, inscribed by the printer, Joseph Blumenthal, to the noted collector, Leonard Schlosser. "This little-known book is one of the very few American livres de peintres published as early as the 1920's" (Garvey). The present copy is totally free from the foxing that mars most copies. Although the spine is restored, it is still a desirable copy of this most important American cubist book, extremely difficult to find in good condition. Although long considered to be woodcuts, these illustrations are in fact relief prints from copper-plates taken from the original blocks, which were not strong enough to print from.

Only 350 copies of this book (the first of many from the Spiral Press) were printed. An amazingly fresh copy of a book which almost always comes with foxing and damage to the fragile binding.

American Livre de Peintre 61. The Artist and the Book 321. Cubist Prints, Cubist Books 78. Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, No. 52.