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MARINETTI, Filippo Tommaso (1876-1944). Zang Tumb Tuuum Adrianopoli Ottobre 1912. Parole in liberta. Milan: Poesia, 1914. 8° (205 x 142mm). Typography by Cesare Cavanna. Half-tone frontispiece portrait, one folding plate. (Some spotting and short marginal tear in the first few leaves.) Original orange wrappers printed in black (short tears at the spine ends, some reading creases at the spine, light soiling, light wear); custom-made clamshell case, probably by Cambras but unsigned, covered in variously coloured and textured papers.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT FUTURIST TEXT. Futurism, founded by Marinetti in 1909, marked the birth of the avant-garde and of anti-traditional culture, and had an international impact on the arts. Marinetti began with one-page compositions of words liberated from conventional constraints, but here creates, for the first time, an entire book of 'free words'. Apollinaire began work on his calligrammes three months after Zang Tumb Tuum was published. The rear wrapper with the printed issue statement '15 migliaio'. Hulten, Futurisme & futurismes, p. 107 ('the two works most closely linked to Marinetti's 'free words' Battaglio Peso and Zang Tumb Tuuum, are VERY IMPORTANT LITERARY DOCUMENTS').
FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT FUTURIST TEXT. Futurism, founded by Marinetti in 1909, marked the birth of the avant-garde and of anti-traditional culture, and had an international impact on the arts. Marinetti began with one-page compositions of words liberated from conventional constraints, but here creates, for the first time, an entire book of 'free words'. Apollinaire began work on his calligrammes three months after Zang Tumb Tuum was published. The rear wrapper with the printed issue statement '15 migliaio'. Hulten, Futurisme & futurismes, p. 107 ('the two works most closely linked to Marinetti's 'free words' Battaglio Peso and Zang Tumb Tuuum, are VERY IMPORTANT LITERARY DOCUMENTS').