Signed book: The World of Salvador Dali. First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10.5 x 12, 228 pages. Enthusiastically signed and inscribed across the half-title page spread in black ballpoint, "Pour Irene, Hommage de Dali, 1962." Dali also draws his classic large, wiry Don Quixote figure on the left side, complete with a landscape with figure pointing to crescent moon, and another figure seated on a rearing horse, signed again below, "Dali." He also adds a crown sketch above his larger signature to the right side. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/VG-, with subtle foxing and toning at the book's spine ends, and some wear, tears at spine, and some old tape to the clipped dust jacket.
Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original recipient, in part: "Dali came again to N.Y. in 1962, my cousin arranged to introduce me to Dali in the St. Regis Hotel. Upon personally meeting him, he remarked satisfied, with a smile under his waxed mustache while holding his silver walking cane, that we (my cousin and I) were both from that country, whose Dutch painter Vermeer, he greatly admired. After a short conversation, a bizarre mixture of French and English, he took my book and asked my name as he opened the double front page." While any type of original artwork by Dali is extremely sought after, this example is improved by the presence of two signatures incorporated into the elaborate sketch—a remarkable display piece from the Surrealist master.
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