[INSCRIBED] Adami (With Full-Page Drawing)

Monograph on Pop-adjacent Italian artist Valerio Adami, subject of an influential essay by Jacques Derrida and a 1986 retrospective at the Pompidou Centre. Written by Hubert Damisch and Henry Martin and published by Leon Ariel in 1974. First American edition, oblong 4to, 196 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. With 3 double-page color lithographs and over 100 illustrations, many in color. Enhanced by an affectionate inscription (“con affetto”) embedded in a drawing on the title page. Minor bumping to extremities. Light chipping to dj; small closed tears to bottom of rear cover, with tape repair. Creasing to rear flap.