Lot 212
[Dali, Salvador]. The Jerusalem Bible. First Edition. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1970. Hardcover, 4to., 1714 pp, This massive undertaking is the 1970 Doubleday & Company, Inc. edition of the Jerusalem Bible that was first translated and issued in English in 1966. It features a lavish gilt-stampled, padded, faux red leather binding with marbled endpapers, full edge gilt, and red silk ribbon page markers. The bible contains thirty-two full page color illustrations by legendary Surrealist shaman Salvador Dali (reproduced from his "Biblia Sacra" series). The Bible is housed in a like gilt-stamped, red faux leather, lidded presentation box. which shows some minor wear. Inscribed and signed on the half title page by the previous owner. Otherwise Fine. The lot also includes a copy of Max Gérard's Dali. Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1968. First Edition. 4to (12 x 11 in.). 243 pp., 271 illustrations, including 80 plates in full color and 23 in toned gravure. The numerous superbly printed illustrations, including startling details and many works never before reproduced, are juxtaposed with Dali's own thoughts on the subjects that most deeply concern him and his painting; war, his wife Gala, space-time, eroticism, mysticism, etc. Chronology and index to rear. Dust jacket of heavy weight gold foil paper, with Dali's The Persistance of Memory (1931) painting inset, framed in ornately decorated gold foil. Clean copy. Fine.
Estimated Value $500 - 600.
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