Les Mots en Liberte futuristes

1919. MARINETTI, F.T. Les Mots en Liberté Futuristes. 107, [5] pp., including four folding plates of typographic compositions by the author. The final two illustrations are comprised of advertisements. 8vo, 195 x 130 mm., bound in original red and black typographic wrappers in a new red cloth folding box. Milano: Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia," 1919. First edition of this influential work of Futurist typographic expression, which Robert Johnson calls "the major typographical masterpiece of the futurist movement." The folding plates present the most famous of all parole in libertà. A nice copy, though a few gatherings have come loose in the back, inscribed by Marinetti. Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, No. 31. Gambetti-Vezzosi 283. Spaducci 176. Andel, Avant Garde Page Design 101.