Art Folio Kathe Kollwitz First Edition 1948

Folio of 21 collotypes* Kathe Kollwitz's charcoal and pencil drawings 1923-1943. Published by Gebr.Mann Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 1948, under the Office of Military Government US, West Berlin. Portraits, self-portraits, working class mother/child/family/aging themes. In German. Expressionist style. Slipcase of buff boards with moss green lettering. Moss green quarter-cloth spine. Flaps fold envelope style over the book. An intro in German is stitched into a booklet. Plates are not bound but individually framed in paper leaflets. Most of the prints are signed and dated. Tanning on the frames. Spine cracked along inside upper edge. 13 x 17.25 x 1 in. *photo-repro absent a half-tone screen.