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1954rif. 165639Paris: Robert Delpire 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Brassaï to legendary actress Gloria Swanson in the year of publication at the home of fashion journalist and "Harper's Bazaar" editor Marie-Louise Bousquet: "Pour Gloria Swanson / avec tout mon admiration / Brassai / Paris le 17 Juin 1954 / chez Marie-Louise Bousquet." Bousquet and her husband the playwright Jacques Bousquet hosted regular Thursday night gatherings at their apartment in Paris 3 Place du Palais-Bourbon inviting the brightest creative luminaries of the period. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket with some brief chipping at and around the crown. Robert Delpire unknown books
1933rif. vC1123SIGNED by Paul Morand atop his 8-page preface. Paris: Edition Arts et Métiers Graphiques 1933. First Edition. Spiral bound quarto sixty-four gravure plates. The highest celebrated most iconic of the great Paris photobooks printed in a luscious gravure so tactile "that after handling the book one expects to find sooty deposits all over one's fingers. One should think of it as amongst the best produced and influential photobooks ever" The Photobook Vol. I. Roth 101. Whereas most night photography of the period celebrates electric light speed and metropolitan life Brassai's portfolio expresses a different urban narrative. The Paris he shows his "little boxes of night" is tawdry intimate dark and full of mystery as though nighttime were its natural hue. As a young man prefacer Paul Morand bathed in Parisian artistic circles and the high public service. Appointed at the age of 24 attached to the French Embassy in London he began a career at the Quai which took him all over Europe. He entered literature in 1921 with his first prose work Tendres Stocks a collection of short stories prefaced by Marcel Proust. During the 30s he published numerous books travelogues novels short stories; he also practiced journalism notably for Le Figaro. A lovely collectible copy signed by Paul Morand. Book #vC1123. $4850. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand history and science. Edition "Arts et Metiers Graphiques"
1928rif. 2129Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1928. Un vol. in-4° (210 x 162 mm). Reliure décorée de Georges Leroux. Plein maroquin mosaïqué, doublures et gardes de maroquin noir, tête et tranches argentées à l'œser, couvertures et dos conservés, chemise et étui. ÉDITION ORIGINALE du plus célèbre écrit d'André Breton. L’UN DES 109 PREMIERS EXEMPLAIRES SUR PAPIER LAFUMA-NAVARRE AU FILIGRANE NRF, RÉIMPOSÉS DANS LE FORMAT IN-4 TELLIÈRE. Celui-ci nominatif, imprimé pour M Ozanne, secrétaire général de la Compagnie P.L.M. - Note bibliographique : Ce roman fut inspiré à André Breton par sa rencontre, au hasard d'une de ses fréquentes promenades parisiennes, avec une jeune femme à l'aspect enchanteur et mystique. Entraperçue le lundi 4 octobre 1926 près d'Opéra, Nadja, de son vrai nom Léona Camille Ghislaine Delcourt (1902-1941), fut, pendant quelques semaines, l'objet de sa curiosité passionnée. Le comportement erratique de la jeune femme mit bientôt fin à leurs rencontres, mais l'idéal qu'elle incarna brièvement, ce rejet des conventions de l'existence et sa réceptivité à l'extraordinaire et à l'intuition, ne cesseront désormais d'obséder Breton. Les deux tiers du livre furent écrits huit mois plus tard, en août 1927, au manoir d'Ango, à Varengeville-sur-Mer. La première partie, qui sert de préambule, retrace les épisodes les plus marquants de la vie de l'auteur, ses rencontres et les curiosités qu'il observe et consigne. La deuxième, centrale, est le « récit minutieux des dix jours passés » avec Nadja et de « la fin de leurs relations ». La troisième enfin, rédigée dans les derniers jours de 1927, constitue la partie théorique du texte ; elle fut perçue comme le premier manifeste du surréalisme. L’ouvrage s’achève sur cette formule devenue célèbre : « La beauté sera convulsive ou ne sera pas. » Breton y prône une conception de la beauté qui inspirera tous ses compagnons de route, qu’ils soient peintres ou poètes. AVEC 44 PLANCHES DE PHOTOGRAPHIES : L'usage révolutionnaire que fit l'auteur de ces clichés contribua pour beaucoup au rayonnement de Nadja. Pour la première fois dans l'histoire littéraire, un auteur fait l'économie de la description narrative, en substituant au texte lui-même une reproduction des lieux, personnes, lettres, documents, dessins ou tableaux cités. Les vues de Paris furent confiées à Jacques Boiffard, capable « d'accompagner la prose sans ornement de Breton de paysages étrangement déserts », les portraits d'amis et les rencontres sont de Man Ray, photographe officiel des dadaïstes, et la photo du gant de bronze (p. 67) est due à Lise Deharme. Quant au portrait de Nadja, que Breton érige en symbole, il est significativement absent du corpus.
1966rif. 112218Cannes 1966. Unpublished and heavily corrected manuscript of Brassai's account of his visit to Picasso A superb unpublished and heavily corrected manuscript in French in which Brassaï recounts a visit to Picasso a long-standing friend at his home near Cannes. Brassaï who photographed much of Picasso's work in the 1940s published Conversations with Picasso in 1964 creating an intimate portrait of the artist through an account of their friendship and artistic collaboration and recording each of their meetings in minute detail. Picasso said of the volume "Read this book if you want to understand me." Written in a similar style this account records an afternoon during which Picasso speaks about his nostalgia for his former studios his health his enthusiasm for the recently invented felt-tip pen his opinion of his own writings his relationship with his wife Jacqueline and his views on feminism. Though unmarked as such the manuscript comes from the collection of Brassaï's close friend and colleague the photographer Stefan Lorant founder of Picture Post the pioneering pictorial magazine. Quarto 285 x 233. 20 typed sheets in French rectos only legibly hand-corrected throughout by Brassai in black ink. Housed in a black cloth album with each sheet in a separate clear plastic file. In excellent condition the final page a little creased and with minor loss to right-hand side affecting one letter. Overall fresh and clean. hardcover
1933rif. 48496Neuilly-sur-Seine. 1933. Original publisher's printed white glossy wrappers reproduction of a Man Ray photograph to front cover of each issue with titles and contributors in red against a white background taking the form of a lighthouse with revolving light later cream morocco-backed black card board chemise with title in red to spine and matching slipcase. 4 vols. in 3. Small 4to. 252 x 182 mm. 4to. 284 x 194 mm. Printed text in French with reproductions of monochrome photographs throughout nos. 1 & 2 with printed 'Bulletin d'Abonnement' sheets on orange paper tipped-in issue with advertisements on various coloured stock see below. An excellent complete set of Lise Deharme's very scarce 'Le Phare de Neuilly' with the final number in the even scarcer large paper édition de tête format.The third number i.e. 'Numéro 3 - 4' is a large paper copy one of 20 nominatif examples issued on papier couché mat spécial printed for 'Monsieur et Madame Raoul Fernandez'; only the third volume was issued in this format.Although each title page of 'Le Phare de Neuilly' suggests that ten issues were to be published 'Dix numéros par an' only these four were achieved. A mixture of the literary and artistic the illustration is of monochrome photographs throughout with Lee Miller contributing to each issue; Man Ray's work also features - the covers are his work - as well as Nadar Dora Maar Brassaï Pierre Keffer Eli Lotar Lloyd Sloane and others.The literary contributors - all listed on the covers of each issue - are extremely varied and include Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes who also wrote the record reviews in the first two numbers Robert Desnos two poems in no. 1 Céline Arnauld Jacques Baron Hans Arp as a poet translated from the German by Georges Hugnet Paul Dermée Lise Hertz i.e. Lise Deharme Nathalie Barney Stendhal the unpublished 'Le lac de Genève' writen under Stendhal's pseudonym 'Henri Martineau' James Joyce see below Thérèse Aubray Jacques Lacan the poem 'Hiatus Irrationalis' Marcel Jouhandeau Ilarie Voronca the poem 'Foules' translated from the Romanian by M. de Boully D. H. Lawrence a translation of 'The Man Who Died' Claire Goll Eugène Jolas 'Gyroscope' Raymond Queneau 'Fragments d'un Roman' and many others.Of particular note in terms of content not to mention innovation are the following: - Alejo Carpentier's 'Images et Prières Nègres' illustrated with a series of photographs - the negatives were burnt in the presence of the Cuban sorceror 'Taita José' - of ritualistic objects shrines and saints; - Le Phare de Neuilly's presumably Deharme herself writing under the eponymous psudonym 'Manifeste du Désarmement Psychique'; - James Joyce's poem 'Ecce Puer' written on the birth of his grandson Stephen in 1932 translated into French by Yvan Goll and printed on the right of a sheet of transparent crystal paper; beneath on a sheet of glossy paper is a photographic reproduction of Joyce's manuscript for the poem and at left is a portrait of both Joyce and his grandson by Robert H. Davis; - Lloyd Sloane's extraordinary 'Monsieur Sépulcre Agent d'Assurances Présente . ' a Surrealist photographic collage novella; - no. 1 with the advertisements at the front of the issue printed in black on monochrome sheets of burgundy blue and pink paper that on pink with text reproducing Deharme's manuscript those at rear on cream newsprint paper advertising Jose Corti''s publishing house 'Corti / 6 Rue de Clichy' and announcing Deharme's own 'Cahier de Curieuse Personne / Poèmes / par / Lise Hirtz' to be published by Corti as appearing 'dans trois mois' this advertisement also reproducing Deharme's manuscript and Roger Vitrac's 'Le Coup de Trafalgar'.Lise Deharme the editor of 'Le Phare de Neuilly' published in the Paris suburb of Neuilly was a salonnière a prolific poetess and a novelist. A muse and patron to the Surrealists - she encountered them as a group in the 1920s - her first published work was 'Images dans le Dos de Cocher' of 1922 although her collaboration with Miró 'Il était une petite pie' of 1928 is cited more usually as her first publication both were issued under her maiden name Ilse Hirtz. Deharme was immortalised by Breton in Nadja as 'la dame au gant' and she can be regarded in many ways as being 'Le Phare de Neuilly' herself.'Page de couverture identique pour les trois fascicules : photographie de Man Ray contient de nombreuses reproductions photographiques de Man Ray Lee Miller Nadar Brassaï Pierre Keffer Dora Maar'. Destribats. Le Fonds Paul Destribats 339; not in Ades. unknown
rif. 51-1017Paris: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées 1949. Seven original drawings by Brassaï who did the décor for the ballet together with the typescript with the author's manuscript annotations as well as the printed publication.Louis Aragon Elsa's husband described the performance in Les Lettres françaises n° 1096 915 septembre 1965.Ça me rappelle cette soirée aux Champs Elysées à la première d'un ballet d'Elsa musique de Jean Rivier chorégraphie de Boris Kochno décors de Brassaï le réparateur de radios avec le déchaînement de la salle les sifflets à roulettes parce que l'on voyait danser les gens du monde dans une boîte de nuit et qu'est-ce que vous voulez tout de suite tout Paris se sentait visé !Dessins originaux à l'encre de Chine sur 7 feuillets environ 246 x 159 mm représentant des bouquets de muguet 3 ou des papillons 4 destinés à illustrés le texte de présentation d'Elsa Triolet "Le Réparateur de radios" publié dans le programme du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées de 1949-1950.On joint :- Triolet Elsa. Le Réparateur de radios ou d'amour et d'eau fraîche. Tapuscrit corrigé 3 p. et épreuves corrigées 3 p. signées.Le livret du Réparateur de radios d'Elsa Triolet sera mis en musique par Jean Rivier avec une chorégraphie de John Taras au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.- Programme du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées 1950 n° 10.In-4 324 x 346 mm en feuilles cordelette. Dirigé par Boris Kochno textes de Paul Eluard et Elsa Triolet dessins de Balthus Cecil Beaton Brassaï etc. Paris: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 1949. unknown
1937rif. 87781Gallimard | Paris 1937 | 14.50 x 19.50 cm | Relié
1937rif. 87781Paris: Gallimard 1937. Fine. ""Convulsive beauty will be veiled-erotic fixed-explosive magic-circumstantial or it will not be"" Gallimard Paris 1937 14.50 x 19.50 cm Relié First edition one of 9 numbered copies on japon only deluxe issue aside from 35 copies on pur fil and a few on coloured paper. Full black morocco binding flat spine authors name palladium-stamped title stamped lengthwise in palladium and blind grey long-grain shagreen inlays to boards with author and title stamped lengthwise in palladium and in blind turn-ins framed in morocco light plum suede pastedowns and flyleaves three palladium decorated deckled edges outstanding custom binding by Thomas Boichot. Illustrated with 20 photographs including 7 photographs by Man Ray 4 by Brassaï one each by Dora Maar Henri Cartier-Bresson and Rogi André as well as artworks by Max Ernst and the statue of a female character by Giacometti in which the writer saw the very emanation of the desire to love and to be loved in search of its real human object in its painful ignorance. André Breton offers a meditation on love at first sight and passion drawn from his fateful first encounter in 1934 with his future wife Jacqueline Lamba this woman was scandalously beautiful. Recalling the beginnings of their romantic relationship he reflects on chance and embarks on a rereading of their love story detecting all sorts of phantasmagoric signs analysing his experiences and feelings. He concludes with an open letter to their daughter Aube born in December 1935 which ends with these words: I want you to be madly loved. A masterpiece of Surrealist literature both an extension and opposite of Nadja which was published nine years earlier also considered an objectbook in the classic surrealist style interleaved with photographs by Cartier-Bresson Brassaï and Man Ray . It proves its own startling kind of existence in the real world being not just a book not just the record of an extraordinary love that between André Breton and the artist with whom he shared his life but an object inserted madly and really now in our world Mary Ann Caws Translators note Mad Love University of Nebraska Press 1987. Gallimard hardcover
