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Dali, Salvador. Hidden Faces. Peter Owens, London, 1973.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First English edition. One of a limited 100 copies signed by Salvador Dali; this copy is unnumbered and out of series. Publisher's gilt stamped vellum and marbled paper covered boards. Near Fine, in Near Fine slipcase, lacking 20-page Postface booklet. Slight yellowing to vellum and light wear at joints, slipcase slightly marked and with one joint tender. The artist's only novel, signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
DALÍ, Salvador. Hidden Faces. Peter Owen, London, 1973.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition, originally published in 1944. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. Illustrated by Dalí. Quarter vellum and marbled paper covered boards in slipcase. Fine. Dalí's only novel. Laid in is a 20 page booklet: *Postface to Hidden Faces Comprising Objective Chance and Reverie* by Dalí. One of 100 copies bound thus (and with the additional *Postface* booklet) Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dali, Salvador. Hidden Faces; Translated by Haakon Chevalier. Peter Owen, London, 1973.
Price: US$4575.00 + shipping
Description: 318 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 61 of 100 signed by Dali. Laid in with the 19-pp. pamphlet "Postface toHiddenFaces" comprising of "Objective Chance" and "Reverie". His first and only novel. HiddenFaceswas originally written in French in 1943, two years after Dali had published his autobiography to great success. Chevalier, a professor at Berkeley University, spent several weeks with Dalí, translating directly into English as Dalí wrote. The novel was completed in two weeks on the estate of the Marquis de Cuevas in Franconia, a mansion in the mountains of New Hampshire next to the Canadian border. Numerous black and white reproductions of paintings after Dali. Orig. quarter vellum and marbled boards, spine gilt lettered. Fine in fine publisher's red cloth slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.