ISBN10: 0691139679, ISBN13: 9780691139678, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover First Edition First American Edition, 1st printing, of the Dadaist's Merz fairy tales in a pristine, AS NEW copy, unread, clean & tight. "This is a very enjoyable collection of subversively humorous stories, and I found myself laughing out loud while reading them. The fairy tale served as apt material for Kurt Schwitters to play with conventions, produce nonsense within well-known plots, or wreak havoc in everyday routines, all in order to critique bourgeois values, religion, nationalism, and Nazism, and to open up the imaginations of children and adults to his artistic worldview." (Cristina Bacchilega)
[Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]