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Bergamo, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche Editore, 1913. Title page with red and black title within a black and white frame, with color plates mounted on cardboard protected by tissue paper, black and white decorations designed by Dulac, usual light uniform browning, publisher's cloth binding, gold title and illustration on the front cover and spine, gilt upper edge, some light foxing. Bookplate on the front pastedown by "B. Pasi". § Together in the lot: Allan Poe E., Racconti straordinari , Milan, Facchi Editore, undated. Half cloth binding with hardback boards and publisher's dust jacket. Translation by Decio Cinti and drawings by Arnaldo Ginna. Copy in excellent condition.
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An interesting Italian edition of Edgar Allan Poe's tales, undated but datable to the first two decades of the 20th century. The illustrations are by Arnaldo Ginna (1890-1982), real name Arnaldo Ginanni Corradini, a pseudonym suggested by Giacomo Balla. He began his artistic career among the first Futurists, whom he met at the home of F.T. Marinetti. Among them were Boccioni, Carrà, and Russolo. But Ginna almost immediately distanced himself from the Futurist movement, which he nevertheless enthusiastically embraced, developing a more intimate style of painting, drawing on his strong spiritualist inclinations and his interest in spiritualism and the occult. He was also considered a precursor of Surrealism. The plates he drew for Poe's tales are a fitting example.
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