RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES Georges. L'Empereur de Chine followed by Le Serin muet by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. Paris : Au sans pareil, Collection Dada, 1921. - In-12, paperback. First edition of these two Dada plays. Written in 1916 and although in the tradition of Jarry's Ubu Roi, L'Empereur de Chine inaugurated the Dada theatre. Le Serein muet was performed in March 1920 at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre by André Breton. Breton, carrying a long thermometer, was assisted by Soupault, disguised as a negro and holding a birdcage. One of 15 numbered copies on Arches laid paper (n° 16), second paper after 10 on Hollande van Gelder.