MARINETTI, Filippo Tommaso (1876-1944). Les mots en liberté futuristes. Milan: Poesia, 1919. 8° (195 x 130mm). Unopened. 4 folding plates. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original wrappers printed in red and black (spine evenly browned, spine foot chipped, some spotting along the edges); custom-made paper-covered clamshell case.
FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MAJOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE OF THE FUTURIST MOVEMENT, expressing modernity through a controlled chaos of words, shapes and images' (Johnson & Stein). An unopened copy of this manifesto which galvanized pre-war Italian Futurism. Johnson & Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era, 31.
MARINETTI, Filippo Tommaso (1876-1944). Les mots en liberté futuristes. Milan: Poesia, 1919. 8° (195 x 130mm). Unopened. 4 folding plates. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original wrappers printed in red and black (spine evenly browned, spine foot chipped, some spotting along the edges); custom-made paper-covered clamshell case.
FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MAJOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE OF THE FUTURIST MOVEMENT, expressing modernity through a controlled chaos of words, shapes and images' (Johnson & Stein). An unopened copy of this manifesto which galvanized pre-war Italian Futurism. Johnson & Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era, 31.
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