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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, con un manifesto vorticista.

Galleria Apollinaire Milano [Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1957].

Square 12mo, pp. [20], with 12 half-tone illustrations; a little foxing else very good in the original grey-green wrappers with a woodcut by Gaudier on the front cover.

£75

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First edition thus, no. 123 of 500 copies, a translation by Pound’s daughter Mary de Rachewiltz of extracts from ‘Gaudier: a Postscript’ and ‘Vortex’ on the occasion of an exhibition at the Galleria Apollinaire in December 1957.

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