Poupées électriques (Electric Dolls). Drame avec une Preface sur Le Futurisme

First French edition, only appeared in this completeness in Italian in 1920. Contains, alongside the drama Poupees Electriques, a complete French version of the Manifesto of Futurism with reference to its publication in Figaro of February 20, 1909. Included is also a full-page dedication by Marinetti to Andre de Ridder, avant-garde art critic and the editor of the Belgian magazine Sélection, chronique de la vie artistique. Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de Créteil between 1907 and 1908. Marinetti is best known as the author of the first Futurist Manifesto, which was written and published in 1909, and as a co-author of the Fascist Manifesto, in 1919. His drama La donna è mobile (Poupées électriques), first presented in Turin, was not successful either. Nowadays, the play is remembered through a later version, named Elettricità sessuale (Sexual Electricity), and mainly for the appearance onstage of humanoid automatons, ten years before the Czech writer Karel Capek invented the term robot. Association copy signed by Marinetti and with an Addendum on the opposite page: "Poesia, 2 Via Senato, Milano" with provenance: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (dedication to:) - André de Ridder. 8vo in original glassine dust jacket has a tear at the bottom of the spine. Front cover has a closed tear, paper slightly foxed at the beginning and end as well as occasionally inside. First French edition, only appeared this complete in Italian in 1920. Remarkable work ahead of its time. 4¾" - 7½".