DALI, Salvador (1904-1989). Metamorphosis of Narcissus . New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1937. Presentation copy of the first edition, with an inscription and a drawing by Salvador Dali to Lord Berners. Quarto (280 x 220mm). Original printed wrappers (worn with loss to spine). Provenance : presentation inscription by Dali on half-title. [ With: ] ‘A Memento of the Great Public Question of Reform’, 1832, aquatint mounted on card (engraving 220 x 160mm), presented by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) to Lord Berners with a pencil note on the verso, ‘I thought you might be amused by this pleasingly Surréaliste vision of English Constitutional history…’; [ And :] JAMES, Edward (1907-1984). Autograph letter signed (‘Edward’) to Gerald [Lord Berners], n.p. [San Antonio, Texas and Mexico City], 2 December 1947, on the difficulties of modern travel, most notably between America and Mexico, and the beauties of New York, ‘this great Gomorrah’, residence of ‘about seven different friends whom I love very much – several of whom, such as Paulik and Dali and Cecil have been my friends now for nearly fifteen years’, 16 pages (278 x 215mm) [ And: ] three related items.
DALI, Salvador (1904-1989). Metamorphosis of Narcissus . New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1937. Presentation copy of the first edition, with an inscription and a drawing by Salvador Dali to Lord Berners. Quarto (280 x 220mm). Original printed wrappers (worn with loss to spine). Provenance : presentation inscription by Dali on half-title. [ With: ] ‘A Memento of the Great Public Question of Reform’, 1832, aquatint mounted on card (engraving 220 x 160mm), presented by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) to Lord Berners with a pencil note on the verso, ‘I thought you might be amused by this pleasingly Surréaliste vision of English Constitutional history…’; [ And :] JAMES, Edward (1907-1984). Autograph letter signed (‘Edward’) to Gerald [Lord Berners], n.p. [San Antonio, Texas and Mexico City], 2 December 1947, on the difficulties of modern travel, most notably between America and Mexico, and the beauties of New York, ‘this great Gomorrah’, residence of ‘about seven different friends whom I love very much – several of whom, such as Paulik and Dali and Cecil have been my friends now for nearly fifteen years’, 16 pages (278 x 215mm) [ And: ] three related items.
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