Hebdomeros.
first edition
31 December 1929 (Colophon) · Paris
by Chirico, Giorgio de (1888-1978).
Paris: Editions du Carrefour, 31 December 1929 (Colophon). First edition. Very Good. 19 cm; 252 pages, [1] leaf. Bound in original wraps, plain variation (that is, without the vignette that appears on most copies). Edition limited to 2500 copies on Alfa Mousse Navarre, this copy not numbered. INSCRIBED BY DE CHIRICO on front blank "A Monsieur Rudder, hommage de..." Published in the "Collection Bifur" series. Original glue fails to completely hold the wraps to the text block. Some very light toning at edges of preliminary leaves.
De Chirico's seminal novel in its first edition, with a gift inscription from the author. The text is regarded as a monument of surrealistic prose, successfully translating the visual and emotional landscape of De Chirico's paintings into narrative form. John Ashbery calls the book "the finest work of Surrealist fiction," noting that de Chirico "invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novelÂ… his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are more real than reality. (Inventory #: 4555)
De Chirico's seminal novel in its first edition, with a gift inscription from the author. The text is regarded as a monument of surrealistic prose, successfully translating the visual and emotional landscape of De Chirico's paintings into narrative form. John Ashbery calls the book "the finest work of Surrealist fiction," noting that de Chirico "invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novelÂ… his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are more real than reality. (Inventory #: 4555)