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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
[3,000/5,000]
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.