Caffe-concerto: Alfabeto a sorpresa. [46] pp. printed on coloured stocks. Profusely illustrated throughoutwith typographic and pen-and-ink compositions. Small 4to., bound in original illustrated blue wrappers, printed in black with a design by Cangiullo. Milan: Edizioni Futuriste di “Poesia,” [1919].
Cangiullo’s best known and most influential work, and one of the most important Futurist books, printed on coloured stocks and displaying a Futurist mis-en-page. The book is organized as a programfor a variety concert, with poetry becoming physical through the typography. A fine copy suffering from only from a very small tear with minimal loss to the rear cover. Contemporaneous owner’s signature on the first leaf.
Lista, Le livre futuriste de la libération du mot au poème tactile, pp. 87, 118 f., 145. Jentsch, The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy, p. 322. Andel, Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950, pp. 111, 113 (illus.).
