Iliazd (Ilia Zdanevich), Various Artists, Albert Gleizes, Alberto Giacometti, Alberto Magnelli, André Masson, Camille Bryen, Edgard Tytgat, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Henri Laurens, Henri Matisse, Jacques Villon, Jean (Hans) Arp, Jean Metzinger, Joan Miró, Léopold Survage, Marc Chagall, Oscar Domínguez, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Hausmann, Serge (Comte Serge Jastrebzoff) Férat, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Wols (A. O. Wolfgang Schulze), Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Poésie de mots inconnus (Poetry of Unknown Words)
Published 1949 (texts 1910–48)
Book, loose as issued, with twenty-seven sheets folded into quarters, each with a print and poem by a different artist and author: seven woodcuts, seven etchings, six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut; letterpress texts; five paper folders printed with contributors’ names; one set of folded sheets bound with sewing thread (printed “Avis muet au relieur”); publisher’s original wrapper and enclosure: loose parchment wrapper with line-block illustration by Ribemont-Dessaignes and letterpress text (“Ne coupez pas mes pages”) on front and outer parchment enclosure with accordion-folded edge and embossed title
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