[KLEYER, BERTHEL].

Im Irrgarten.

Frankfurt A.M. Bertele, Bilder, Buecher (c. 1925) Quarto. (26)pp. First edition. Written and illustrated with thirteen fantastic, color-lithographed plates by Kleyer, who studied under the expressionist painter and printmaker Ludwig Meidner. Kleyer's text, which is a series of rhyming couplets printed on facing pages, concerns a family visit to a carnival, where they enter a funhouse maze. The majority of the illustrations are concerned with depicting the various distorted reflections the two little girls, their parents, and the family dog see while traversing the funhouse. These illustrations possess a distinctly surreal aesthetic reminiscent of the pioneering artwork of Winsor McCay for his Little Nemo in Slumberland. Bound in original cloth-backed illustrated boards, which show light soiling. Overall, a nearly fine copy of a scarce book. (Juvenile).

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