Nagy

1940 · Best.-Nr. 311 — Budapest: Cserépfalvi 1940. First edition. In original half cloth. With the rare photographically illustrated dust jacket. The book is in fine condition./Dust jacket chipped on front at upper edges and teared on the rear otherwise fine. Photographs and typography by Lajos Lengyel. Photographs and typography by Lajos Lengyel. First edition. In original half cloth. With the rare photographically illustrated dust jacket. 60 6 p. 9 plates 16 photographs. Contains four essays and two poems about the recently died dancer and three theoretical writings of her. Etel Nagy 1907–1939 was a pioneer of modern dance in Hungary. She was Lajos Kassák’s adopted daughter. Studied at Gertrud Kraus’ school in Vienna. Later she opened her own school in Budapest. Lajos Lengyel 1904–1978 graphic artist typographer and photographer. In his early years he was involved in the modernist movements member of Kassák’s Munka-Circle. As typographer he won the Gutenberg-prize in 1965. . Cserépfalvi unknown