Tristan TZARA. Of our birds. Paris, Kra,... - Lot 254 - Pescheteau-Badin

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Tristan TZARA. Of our birds. Paris, Kra,... - Lot 254 - Pescheteau-Badin
Tristan TZARA. Of our birds. Paris, Kra, July 15, 1923. In-8 (14 x 20,1), paperback. 114-(3f.). Extremely rare and precious first edition illustrated with 10 full-page compositions (woodcuts ?) by Hans Arp. As mentioned in the "achevé d'imprimer" under the justification, the work was printed on July 15, 1923 by Dietsch and Brueckner in Weimar for the "feuilles libres" editions, 81, Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris. This edition was almost immediately destroyed following a quarrel between Tzara and his publishers and it was not until a second edition, an undated edition that bibliographers estimate to be from 1929, that this collection saw the light of day. Thanks to the kindness of one of our colleagues, we were able to compare our copy with a copy of the 1929 edition, which is usually considered the original edition: - the format of the 1923 edition is larger than that of the 1929 edition, by about a centimeter in height and width. - the cover is similar, with the same imposition, but the second plate of the 1929 edition carries the price 10 Frs. - the collations are almost identical: 1923: 2f. (blanks), 1f. (title), 1f. (illustration), 7-114, 1f. (engraving), 1f. (illustration), 1f. (with on the front From the same author and on the back the justification). 1929 : 1f. (blank), 1f. (title), 1f. (illustration), 7 to 114, 1f. (engraving), 1f. (illustration), 1f. - the last leaf is different on the front and on the back. On examination, the imposition of the text is rigorously identical in both editions, the spaces, the bold, the italics and other typographical coquetries are the same, but the printing of the 1923 edition is sharper, the blacks are denser, the illustrations stand out better while in the 1929 edition the typography is a little lighter and the illustrations are of a less frank black. In our opinion, the 1929 edition is a cliché reproduction of the 1923 edition with only the last leaf modified. The copy we present is thus one of the very few to have escaped destruction, probably because it is a large paper. One of the 10 first copies on Japon (n° 9), this one signed by Tristan Tzara. Copy in perfect condition except for the unevenly browned cover.
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