[FIRST EDITION] Zürich: (Spektrum), Juni 1970. Tall softcover folio with original signed graphic cover. Measures 17-1/2 x 12-1/4 inches; 24 pages (one, fold-out) including covers.   

The numbered, limited "Patron's Edition" with ten original graphics, including Walter Wegmüller, Klaus Däniker, Jürgen Zumbrunnen (with 2 graphics), Baltensperger, Otakar Hudecek, Margrit Krahenbuhl, Hans Aeschbacher, all but the Hudecek signed in pencil.

Minor soiling and shelf wear to covers, else very good overall condition; no owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY.

Beginning in 1958, the Swiss artist Sven Knebel (born 1927) established a publishing firm to promote the work of young writers and artists. Felix Rellstab joined him as an editor. The oversize format of their quarterly magazine Spektrum accommodated large scale original woodcuts, linocuts, and screen prints in every issue.

Authors include Günter Eich, Max Frisch, Ludwig Hohl, Alfred Andersch, Rainer Brambach, Walter Gross, and many others. One of artist Knebel frequently published was the German printmaker Helmut Andreas Paul (HAP) Grieshaber (1909-1981), who cut large, dramatic images on course wood blocks. Bert Schmidmeister, Samuel Lier, Viktor Hermann, and Juana Faure are among the many other artists given a platform at Spektrum.