ref. 115567Munich R. Piper & Co. 1913. . First edition one of 300 copies signed by the artist and numbered in ink on the justification; square 4to 28.5 x 28 cm; illustrated with 56 woodcuts 12 in colour and 44 in black text and illustrations on Holland Van Gelder cream laid paper some scattered spotting; publisher's purple cloth linen over red paper covered boards top and bottom of spine repaired corners repaired gold design to upper cover later morocco backed chemise and slipcase a good copy. 'The range of Kandinsky's work is seen here from cuts in his early style reminiscent of folk art and Jugendstil to his non-objective designs which have been so important in 20th-century art. Arp has pointed out that the sonorous quality of Kandinsky's poetry in Klänge was likewise influential in modern literature and was recited by the Dadaists in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich' The Artist and The Book 1860-1960. 'Between the time he created extraordinary hand-coloured woodcuts of medieval ladies in 1903 and 1913 Kandinsky formed Der Blaue Reiter The Blue Rider group with Franz Marc and wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art. The blue rider was Saint George a favourite of the Russians. In this pivotal book which includes some of Kandinsky's earliest abstract compositions Saint George and other knights on horseback are shown searching magic mountains for truth. Munich, R. Piper & Co., 1913. hardcover