Tristan; Francis PICABIA ( illustrator ). Sept manifestes Dada. quelques dessins de Francis Picabia.

by TZARA

£5,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

‘Dada Means Nothing’ – Presented by Tzara, with an Autograph Letter TZARA, Tristan; Francis PICABIA ( illustrator ). Sept manifestes Dada. quelques dessins de Francis Picabia. Paris: Éditions du Diorama, Jean Budry Co. [1924.] 8vo. Mid-twentieth-century pebbled morocco, upper board lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, uncut edges, silk page-marker, original black wrappers with blue label to front bound in, housed in a custom-made slipcase; pp. 97, [7], with full-page portrait of Tzara to p. 7 and a further 11 in-text illustrations by Picabia; spine and joints expertly restored at head; subtle marginal repairs to wrappers and upper corner of half-title, uniform light toning (more pronounced to first and final pages); overall a very good, clean, copy; presentation inscriptions to Armand Salacrou to half-title ( see below ), respectively dated April 1925 (signed ‘TZARA’ and accompanied by a small ink drawing of a finger piercing a heart) and 10 February 1946 (signed ‘Tristan TZARA’ and with a small ink drawing of a flower), autograph letter to Salacrou (8vo, pp. [1], signed ‘Tristan TZARA’ and dated 1 June 1956) and press photograph of Salacrou at the Académie Goncourt (typescript caption dated 5 January 1949 adhered to verso, photographer’s blue ink stamp to verso) loosely inserted. First complete edition of Tzara’s seven revolutionary Dada manifestos, no. 216 of 250 copies printed on Lafuma paper from a total edition of 300, twice inscribed – first in 1925 and again in 1946 –

• Binding: Hardcover

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