Salvador DALI.
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. New York, Burton C. Hoffman, Dial Press, 1942.
Large in-8, blue half cloth à la Bradel, title page and two illustrations pasted on the spine and the white vellum boards (publisher's binding).
One of the 119 numbered first copies with an original drawing in India ink by Salvador
Dalí (n° 19).
It is signed and dated 1942 and bears an autograph signed "For Mrs Harrison / Williams / Fervent tributes / Dali".
The sending is addressed to Mona Williams (1897-1983) whose portrait Salvador Dalí painted in 1943. Wife of the businessman Harrison Williams, she became a widow in 1953 and remarried two years later to Bismarck's grandson. The Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris perpetuates her memory.
Title page rubbed and missing.
