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Published by Cahiers D'Art, Paris, 1939
- Hardcover
- Signed
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. 4to. LIMITED SIGNED EDITIONS, one of 25 copies. All 3 issues of L'Usage de la Parole bound in one volume. SIGNED by Georges Hugnet on versos of all 3 title pages in pencil. Issue #1 cover illustration enhanced in magenta pink by Man Ray. Issue #2 cover illustrated by Max Ernst. I…ssue #3 cover illustration by Joan Miro heightened with colored pencil. Issue #3 includes a melody score by Virgil Thomson contained in a red Annonay paper cover with reproduction of a drawing by Picasso and verso of rear cover SIGNED by Hugnet and Virgil Thomson in ink. Lacking Miro etching. T.e.g. Bound in half-leather covers. Tiny chip to upper fore edge of page 13. Slightest offsetting from Picasso cover drawing to adjacent page. Contents otherwise clean and bright. Uneven sun fading to faintly scratched covers with small patches of rubbing to extremities of surface. Wear to fore corners and some scraping to edges of covers. Scraping along joints and some cracking/tearing approx 1/4-inch long to lower joint ends. Light chipping to spine ends and joint ends of covers. Dampstaining to spine head of covers and spot of dampstaining to upper fore corner of rear cover. VG. Author.
