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Futurismo - Soffici, Ardengo

BÏF & ZF + 18. Simultaneity and lyrical chemisms, 1915

Estimate

€ 500 - 700

Sold

€ 2.176

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Florence, Editions of the Voice (A. Vallecchi), 1915. In 2 ° (445 x 334 mm). Eyelet, frontispiece printed in red and blue, portrait of the author, light browning, binding in modern red canvas, preserved only the editorial front plate made with a 'collage' composition printed in color with hand watercolored touches, lower plate and spine in modern canvas.

Specialist Notes

Very rare first edition of this artist's book composed by Soffici in folio format with the aim of launching the "newspaper-book", which can be bought, read, folded under the arm and thrown away in the evening. Collection of poems (Simultaneity) and free words (Lyrical chemisms), among which some of the best known of Futurist history. The work had a limited edition of 300 copies, ours is number 196, most of which were destroyed with the Florence flood in 1966 as the bulk still lay unsold since 1915 in the publisher's warehouses.