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Description: Handsomely bound in heavy, roughly textured cloth printed with Dali's art work on the front and rear boards. Clean and tight throughout, and illustrated with a multitude of color plates, numerous black and white ones, several folding plates and leaves as well.There are 271 illustrations, including 80 plates in full color and 23 in toned gravure. With two light creases at the bottom right-hand corner of the title page. In the original, heavy gilded colorful dust jacket with the striking painting "The Persistence of Memory" by Dali on the front panel. "The book is sumptuously covered with gold foil, usually reserved for candy boxes; that is why you will soon be tasing sweets in the form of soft watches; thus it is that the imagintion of our ingenious friend satisfied with one stroke two passions dear to his heart: art and gastronony." The jacket is complete with some light edge rubbing, especially along the top and bottom edges of the rear panel and at the corners. A lovely copy with a charming drawing of a petite angel holding a flower. Signing this copy at the Rive Gauche restarant in Georgetown, near Washington, D.C. the artist apparently used a blot of mustard to color in the body of the winged angel who is holding a delicate flower. The book is inscribed boldly in black ink to: HERB and signed with élan by Dali, with the multi-circled ball over the i and dated 1978, with the drawing of the angel holding a flower on the verso of the front endpaper. Included is a letter of provenance with this signed presentation copy explaining that Dali was a patron of the Rive Gauche restaurant in Georgetown, and that the manager Jeannine Fletcher asked him to inscribe this book to her husband Herb.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.