RETURN. No. 6: X 1923. cover by W. Strzeminski. Rare!!!

RETURN. Magazine. Direction: the art of the present. Cracow. Editor. Tadeusz Peiper. 4. pamphlet.
No. 6: X 1923. pp. 161-194.
Time. BJ 9, 377. taped loss of edges of front cover, slight loss of corner of first pages, back cover missing. - Replaced with common copy. The last issue of the first series of "Crossover" summarized the work of the Futurist movement, which was passing into history. Their texts about it were placed here by T. Peiper ("Futurism (analysis and criticism)"), B. Jasienski ("Polish Futurism (balance)") and T. Czyzewski ("My Futurism"). The issue also contained Marinetti's poems translated by J. Kurek and in an innovative typographical arrangement, a discussion of B. Jasienski's novel. Jasieński's "Legs of Isolde Morgan" and Witkacy's "Theater", a short account of the Exhibition of New Art in Vilnius (by W. Strzemiński). The black and red cover composition, different from the previous and later ones, was made by Wladyslaw Strzeminski. It is considered an independent work of art, referring to the suprematist paintings of Kazimir Malevich. The layout is dominated by a large red G (read by some as a stylized 6) and a black square placed at the bottom of the card. The cover of the 6th issue of "Zwrotnica", together with the compositions included in the "Catalogue of the Exhibition of New Art", are the first examples of functional printing. Strzeminski, it is assumed, supervised the graphic design of the entire issue, and it was probably he who designed the minimalist typographic forms placed on pp. 172, 184 and 186.
In the last 30 years (this is the data we have), the sixth issue of "Zwrotnica" has appeared at book auctions in Poland only three times (Rara Avis auction 81, 97 and 139), only once retaining the cover with Strzeminski's composition, which is crucial here.