Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Translated by Charles Cotton. Selected and Illustrated by Salvador Dali. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. This is #776 of 1,000 copies signed by Salvador Dali. Brilliant pairing of Montaigne's 16th century inquiries into the nature of reality with Dali's surrealist exploration of the irrational dream world underlying the real. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Remains of the rare glassine wrapper and the publisher's slipcase. The spine is lightly sun faded; else near fine.

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