La Beffa di Buccari - Exemplaire de Natalie Clifford Barney

by Gabriele D'ANNUNZIO - (inscribed to Natalie Clifford BARNEY)

$4,030 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

Milano [Milan]: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1918. Fine. Fratelli Treves Editori | Milano [Milan] 1918 | 11 x 16.50 cm | broché | First edition for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed. Small marginal pieces missing at the top of the first board, a clear remnant of adhesive paper at the bottom of the first endpaper. Copy complete with the facsimile at the end of the volume. Precious handwritten inscription signed by Gabriele d Annunzio to Natalie Clifford Barney: « à miss Barney et au Temple de l Amitié attentive, cette légère torpille ‘sine litteris est offerte par la ‘tête d ivoire . Gabriele d Annunzio » (“To Miss Barney and the attentive Temple of Friendship, this light ‘sine litteris torpedo is offered by the ‘ivory head . Gabriele d Annunzio” Very beautiful testimony to the friendship between Gabriele d Annunzio and Natalie Clifford Barney, who probably met through the painter Romaine Brooks, temporary lover of the “ivory head” but also of the Amazon for more than fifty years. In 1909, Natalie Clifford Barney acquired the Temple of Friendship at 20 Rue Jacob and set up her literary salon, which would be held every Friday and would welcome the greatest literary and artistic personalities of the time: Salomon Reinach, Auguste Rodin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Colette, James Joyce, Paul Valéry, Pierre Louÿs, Anatole France, Robert de Montesquiou, Gertrude Stein, Somerset Maugham, T. S. Eliot, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, André Gide, Nancy Cunard, Peggy Guggenheim, Marie Lau

• Publisher: Fratelli Treves Editori
• Year: 1918
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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