Les mots en liberté futuristes

Milano: Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia". 1919.

First edition, inscribed by Marinetti. 8vo. 190x120mm. pp. 107, [7 inc 3pp adverts] but lacking pp91-92 of text and the four folding plates. In fragile condition with the front cover detached and the spine broken. In glassine wrapper. Housed in a custom made box with the title and author stamped in black. The front free endpaper has the inscription "Mme C. Graetaers [?] avec sympathathie F.T.Marinetti. Corso Venezia 61 Milano". Sold as found.

'The Major Typographical Masterpiece of the Futurist Movement, expressing modernity through a controlled chaos of words, shapes and images... This manifesto galvanized pre-war Italian Futurism’ (Johnson & Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era, 31).