Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(FUTURISM.) Vasari, Ruggero. L'Uomo e la Macchina Raun. Second Edition. Photomontage cover by Ivo Pannaggi. 71, [9] pages. 8vo, original wrappers, spine and cover edges worn and dampsoiled, slightly affecting image; scattered creasing to pages, errata slip tipped in. Milan publisher's sticker pasted onto lower title-page. Milan: Impresa Editoriale Lino Cappuccio, 1933
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scarce inscribed second edition of this rare futuristic stage drama by one of the founders of the movement, with the photomontage cover by Ivo Pannaggi, also one of the leading Futurist artists. inscribed by vasari on the half-title: "Al signor Console Alcaraz Tornel con simpatia futurista. Vasari. Berlin 1934" (To the Consul Mr. Alcaraz Tornel with Futuristic Sympathy). The first edition was published in 1932 in Milan by La Lanterna with a cover by Quirino de Giorgio. The text block is identical but for the pasted-over imprint on the title-page. Pietrogrande 32; Cammarota 480.8.