60 Great Books Bauman Rare Books - 32 - Dalí’s Large Folio Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Signed By Him, With An Original Etching And 12 Full-Page Color Heliogravures 30. (DALÍ, Salvador). CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York, 1969. Large folio (13 by 18-1/2 inches), loose signatures laid into brown cloth portfolio as issued, half morocco clamshell box with leather and bone fore-edge ties. $17,500. Beautifully printed limited edition of the brilliant and beloved children’s classic, one of 2500 copies signed by Salvador Dalí, with an original etching and 12 full-page color heliogravures after his paintings—as breathtakingly imaginative as the text they illustrate. Dalí’s twisting dreamscapes and semi-hallucinatory images superbly complement Carroll’s astonishingly inventive fantasy (first published in 1865) and exemplify the artist’s entire oeuvre. “Dalí’s images have become icons of the fantastic, signposts (not maps) that point the way inward to that realm” (Clute & Grant, 246). This magnificent production, printed on Mandeure paper, contains an original three-color etching as a frontispiece and 12 striking full-page color photogravures (heliogravures) after Dalí’s original gouache paintings. Michler & Löpsinger 321-333. Field 69-5. Expert repair to leather straps for original bone ties. Fine condition.
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