20 - ARP (Jean).

ARP (Jean). Behaarte Herzen. 1923–1926. Könige vor der Sintflut. 1952–1953. [Frankfurt am Main: Meta Verlag, 1953]. — In-4, 256 x 205: 52 pp. Publisher’s Bradel-style cloth binding, decorated in the center of the front cover with an embossed motif depicting an eye; plain spine. First edition of this collection of German poems by Jean Arp, spanning his Dada-Surrealist period (1923–1926) and his so-called “mature” period (1952–1953). This is the author’s first collection of poems published in West Germany, at the initiative of the painter and publisher Karl Otto Götz (1914–2017). It is illustrated with a full-page woodcut by the author (“Fish”), placed opposite the first poem. Limited edition of 600 copies; this one is among the first 100 deluxe copies (no. 98), enhanced with a signed woodcut by Jean Arp titled “Visage de coquillage.” Copy enhanced with a signed autograph dedication: Édouard Jaguer // in alter Freundschaft // November 1953 // K. O. Götz Here, the publisher presents this copy to the poet and art critic Édouard Jaguer (1924–2006), with whom he would go on to found, just a few weeks later, the artists’ group “Phases” and the magazine of the same name. The copy is in excellent condition and includes the promotional strip.