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Contributed by Hee Jin on Aug 1st, 2019. Artwork published in
circa 1966
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Zwischen Spartakus und Sozialdemokratie [tr: Between Spartacus and Social Democracy] by Paul Levi, 1969
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Zwischen Spartakus und Sozialdemokratie [tr: Between Spartacus and Social Democracy] by Paul Levi, 1969

Paperback series with political texts jointly published by Europäische Verlagsanstalt Frankfurt (Germany) and Europa Verlag Wien (Austria) in the late 1960s. The covers were designed by August Bachmeier, exclusively using Stempel Garamond. The text is positioned in an oblong framed by a fine line, with the series title aligned to the top, and the volume’s title to the bottom. The author’s name appears on top of the latter, in the same size, but in italics. The publishers’ names is shown at the very bottom, outside the rectangle, at a smaller point size. Stempel Garamond is used with its ligatures for ch (non-touching) and ft (see Feuerbach, Luxemburg).

Das Recht auf Faulheit by Paul Lafargue, 1966
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Das Recht auf Faulheit by Paul Lafargue, 1966

Marxismus und Philosophie by Karl Korsch, 1966
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Marxismus und Philosophie by Karl Korsch, 1966

Anthropologischer Materialismus. Ausgewählte Schriften I by Ludwig Feuerbach, 1967
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Anthropologischer Materialismus. Ausgewählte Schriften I by Ludwig Feuerbach, 1967

Karl Marx by Karl Korsch, 1967
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Karl Marx by Karl Korsch, 1967

Politische Schriften I–III by Rosa Luxemburg, 1966–1968
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Politische Schriften I–III by Rosa Luxemburg, 1966–1968

3 Comments on “Politische Texte series”

  1. Dig the initial swash lowercase v in the medial position in Paul Levi, like a socialist peasant who doesn’t know his place.

  2. Ha! I see what you mean. While Stempel Garamond’s italic came with a range of alternate swash forms, this v is not one of them: it’s rather the default form, and the sole one included in the font. It’s similar (although less salient) for w. You can see the swashy v in medial position on this index card by the D. Stempel AG, for Novellen and Universität.

    Scan courtesy of Hans Reichardt

  3. Wow, you’re right.

    Still, it’s as if the v is shouting, “I am Spartacus!”

    Stempel Garamond is near the top of my list of typefaces that need their optical ranges digitized.

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