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Floridly SIGNED with an ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION by Salvador Dali in blue felt-tip ink on the spread encompassing the first two blank pages (verso of ffep & recto of first blank). Full double-page signature, with the huge "D" in Dali capped by a drawing of a halo crown adorned with a cross on top. Signed with his surname only, Dali has added the date "1971" below. The signature is bold & clear, in fine condition, with a couple of tiny brushes to the enormous capital "D". Provenance includes auction record, with pre-certified PSA/DNA & auction house COA. First Edition, stated. Translated from the French by Joachim Neugroschel. Contains ten conversations with Dali, plus an essay by Dali titled The Conquest of the Irrational. Front cover blurb: "A revealing dialogue with a modern master". From inner flap of dustjacket (in part): "The antic genius of 'the divine Dali' has never been better displayed than in these sprightly conversations with his old friend, Alain Bosquet, a novelist, poet, and critic. The setting for all ten conversations is Dali's luxurious Paris apartment. Everything is grist for the talk, and the subjects change rapidly as the obiter dicta fall: politics and painting, France and the USA, Luis Bunel, Popes John and Paul, Sophia Loren. Bosquet especially pursues Dali's relationship to Spain and France, to Catholicism, and to the history of Surrealism. There are hilarities here and opinions quotable by the page. However, running throughout this dazzling talk are the expectably shrewd and knowing observations on the history and craft of painting, both Dali's and that of past and present masters. Rounding out the ten conversations is a new translation of Dali's complete essay 'The Conquest of the Irrational', a tour de force on the place of Surrealism in twentieth-century culture. This is a primary document of the movement, in which Dali analyzes the significance of the unconscious forces of modern art over against modern science and technology". The original French edition, titled Entretiens avec Salvador Dali, was first published in 1966 by Pierre Belfond. This is the First American Edition, published 1969 by E.P. Dutton. Printed in the USA. Bound in original pale blue boards backed by yellow cloth spine with black lettering, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket (retaining original published price of $3.95 on inner front flap). A very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. The dustjacket is now protected in a removable clear Bro-dart cover. 123pp. SIGNED COPY with an ORIGINAL DRAWING by the famed Spanish Surrealist. RARE & UNIQUE.
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