ISOU ISIDORE Les véritables créatures et les Falsificateurs

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ISOU, ISIDORE. Les véritables créatures et les Falsificateurs de Dada, Du Surréalisme et du Lettrisme (1965-1973). Original watercolor, ink, and pencil frontispiece by Maurice Lemaître, and a plaster tablet carved with a design by him on recto with title and colophon written on verso. 4to, contents loose in white wrappers printed in green, with a painted Lettrist onlay by Lemaître on front cover; uncut and mostly unopened; original olive green cloth folding box with gilt-lettered calf spine label. Paris, 1973

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number 23 of only 25 copies signed by isou and lemaître containing an original print and plaster relief from a limited edition of 50 copies on arches before an ordinary edition of 1000. The verso of the plaster tablet reads "`Le Combat de Lemaître' Tablette mnémotechnique pour un roman oral et supertemporel XVIII/XXV (Catalogue Lemaître 422 bis)." Chapters concern such topics as Dada, Futurism, Zaoum, Hugo Ball, Albert-Birot, Antonin Artaud, Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, Georges Hugnet, Sanouillet and Hans Richter on Dada.