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Author: Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
Title: Three items relating to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Futurist movement
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Date Published: 1909
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  Poupées Electriques. Drame. Avec une Préface sur le Futurisme. 192, (1)pp.8vo.Old quarter blackhardgrainmorocco lettered in gilt, original yellow wrappers bound in, rubbing to joints. Paris:Sansot, 1909. First edition.


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  Enquête Internationale sur le Vers Libre et Manifeste du Futurisme. 153, (7, ads)pp.Small4to.Original printed wrappers, backstrip repaired, slightly soiled but quite good.Milan: Editions de “Poesia,” 1909.


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  Autographed letter signed by Marinetti to Montesquieu. 1 pp., 8vo, n.d.

Poupées Electric: presentation copy inscribed by Marinetti to Robert de Montesquieu: “A mon cher maître Robert de Montesquieu. Hommage admiratif F.T. Marinetti”. A fine association copy. Enquête Internationale sur le Vers Libre et Manifeste du Futurisme: “8me. Mille” (i.e. an early but not first printing). Although not inscribed this was the copy given with the items above to Montesquieu, by Marinetti. All three are from the collection of Gershon Legman, with his bookplate and signature in the inscribed volume. Autographed letter signed from Marinetti to Montesquieu: Written in ink and boldly signed, the letter reads: “Mon cher Maître, Je vous prie de vouloir bien m’envoyer votre jugement sur notre Manifeste du Futurisme et votre adhésion totale ou partielle. En attendant votre réponse, qui sera publié dans Poesia, je vous prie d’agréer mes remerciements anticipés et les hommages de mon admiration profonde, F.T. Marinetti” Marinetti's letters and inscribed copies are surprisingly uncommon in commerce and this collection has a fine association with Robert de Montesquieu who was a leading French aesthete, poet, and close friend of Proust who based his character Charlus on him. F. T. Marinetti (1876–1944) is widely known as the founder of Futurism, an early twentieth-century cultural revolution that began as a literary movement and expanded to influence painters, musicians, dramatists, architects, and graphic artists throughout the world.

very good