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Lot 139

[Leger, Fernand] Goll, Iwan. Die Chapliniade. Presentation Copy
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[Leger, Fernand] Goll, Iwan. Die Chapliniade

Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, (1920). First edition. 8vo. 42, (2) pp. Presentation copy, inscribed by Goll on half-title: "a F.S. Flint hommage respectueux Ivan Goll Paris 3.I 21." Illustrated with four plates of cubist-style portraits of Charlie Chaplin, after Fernand Leger. Publisher's tan pictorial boards, stamped in black with a depiction of Chaplin, with pink and green cover labels, by Hans Blanke, boards unevenly toned, scattered light soiling; dampstaining to front and rear paste-downs.

A handsome first edition presentation copy of French-German poet Iwan Goll's ode to Charlie Chaplin. Inscribed to English poet, French translator, and member of the Imagist group, Frank Stuart Flint (1885-1960). Described as a "cinema-poem", Goll praises Chaplin as the greatest philosopher of modernity, and who is depicted within by Fernand Leger in his characteristic cubist-influenced style.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
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