Auction 29 / Graphics & Books

tue 1 DECEMBER -  thu 3 DECEMBER 2020
Lot 547

Copy dedicated by Viani to Ugo Ojetti

D'Annunzio Gabriele

[ Lorenzo Viani (Viareggio, 1882 - Ostia, 1936) ]

We want to live.

Pescia: tip. Benedetti e Nicolai, 1921.
In-folio (mm 436x350). 27 papers + 1 xylographic title-page, 6 full page out of text woodcuts and a woodcut on the front side of the paperback. 8 woodcuts by Lorenzo Viani in all. Original paperback binding with leather blind tooled inserts and xylographic title. Browning on sides. D’Annunzio’s signature impressed on the front end-paper; autograph dedication of Lorenzo Viani to Ugo Ojetti dated November the fifth, 1922. IN ADDITION: 1) Facsimile of a letter of D'Annunzio to Viani on headed paper " Commission for the national monument for the Martiri dell'Ala", dated May the ninth, 1922. 2) Domenico Vassura – Chosen books on occasion – n. May the first, 1924. Bifolio from the catalogue with big woodcuts sent to Ugo Ojetti at Salviatino Villa (Florence). (3)
(3)
Base price
EUR 500,00
sold : Registration