WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM SALVADOR DALI - Lot 181

WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM SALVADOR DALI CERVANTES / DALI. HISTOIRE D'UN GRAND LIVRE. Paris, Joseph Foret, 1957. Large in-4° booklet consisting of the cover and 13 pages bound with a twisted cord. A slightly soiled copy. Very rare booklet with a full-page color lithograph that was rejected for the final edition. "Don Quixote sees the first mill, and from the violence of the struggle he is about to engage in, his head bursts open... The "head" is born of a light bulb filled with lithographic ink that Dali dropped... It concludes Dali's encounter with lithographic art. " Signed letter from Salvador Dali on the first page, dated 1957. [Enclosed]: an invitation to the opening of the exhibition Le Livre le plus cher du Monde on Thursday, December 12, 1957, at the Musée Jacquemart-André.