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The Birds of Acid, part 3

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Didier Mutel

Didier Mutel's homage to John J. Audubon’s extraordinary Birds of America

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One of Mutel's most delicate works, illustrated with abstract anthropomorphic figures reminiscent of the surrealists so admired by Ponge.

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R217A reproduces the text of the United Nations Resolution 217A, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, made December 10, 1948, which was ratified by the UN General Assembly in Paris by 58 member states.

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Philippe Grandjean’s Romain du Roi typeface, from the original plates

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Mutel's defense and celebration of etching

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The valuable ensemble offered here documents the breadth of Futurist ideology across the arts: literature, painting, sculpture, music, etc.

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First-hand reports during the French Revolution by one of Paris’s greatest observers, bound in stunning contemporary parchment and paste-paper boards

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Written entirely without the use of the letter "A": very rare first issue of the first edition of this celebrated if brief lipogram

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A bibliophile's copy: 24 original watercolors and a deluxe binding by Ruban