1920réf. 74039Proverbe | Paris 1er Avril 1920 | 14 x 22.50 cm | 1 numéro sur 1 double feuille
1960réf. 16604Exemplaire sur japon avec envoi Paris, Jean Hughes, (3 août) 1960. 1 plaquette (165 x 250 mm) non paginée de 2, [8] et 3 f. Broché, chemise et étui. Edition originale. Portrait photographique d'Éluard en frontispice et illustration réhaussée à l'aquarelle par René Char en couverture. Un des 50 premiers exemplaires sur japon (n° 3). Envoi signé : « pour Edmée Maus, ces poèmes fraternels. René Char ».
réf. 21714Paris, Gallimard, 1934. In-8, 86 pp., broché, couverture originale imprimée (minuscules traces de poussière à la couverture).
1984réf. 91984 Paris, Gallimard, 1984 ; fort in-8, [2] ff., 517 pp., [2] ff., maroquin cerise, large rectangle mosaïqué de box fauve serti d'un filet doré sur les plats, dos lisse, tête dorée, non rogné, couverture et dos, étui bordé (Alix).
1921réf. 367Paris Au sans pareil 1921 In-8(188x145mm.), demi-bradel de maroquin rouge à coins, tête lisse, non rogné, couverture imprimée.
1944réf. 82362Sus étui bordé. Reliure demi-maroquin rouge à bandes. Dos lisse avec titre en long. Tête dorée. Couverture et dos conservés. Reliure signée D.-H. MERCHER.
2006réf. SONG0976844931Black Widow Press 2006-07-20. Bilingual. paperback. Used: Good. 7.14x0.55x8.90. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Black Widow Press paperback
1930réf. 2504Paris: Surréalistes 1930. First edition. Original wrappers. Good. FIRST EDITION ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ANDRÉ BRETON. Written within the span of only three weeks during the summer of 1930 André Breton and Paul Éluard's L'Immaculée Conception is a quintessential example of the Surrealist practice of automatic writing. While Surrealism today may at first evoke painters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí Surrealism was demarcated by its founders namely Breton as an experiment as much if not more in language and literature as the visual arts. Thus the process of automatic writing which he developed across his lifetime sits at the heart of the first Surrealist Manifesto 1924-and L'Immaculée Conception represents a pinnacle automatic text executed by two of the major Surrealist vanguards themselves. In a 1961 interview with Judith Jasmin Breton maintained that the mission of Surrealism has been the same since 1924 and that Surrealism continues to be defined as: "automatisme psychique pur par lequel on se proposait d'exprimer par écrit ou de tout autre manière le véritable mécanisme de la pensée. Il s'agissait d'une dicté de la pensée en dehors de tout contrôle-et ceci était très important-de tout contrôle exercé par la raison et en dehors de toute préoccupation esthétique ou morale." Breton 1961 pure psychic automation by which one proposes to express in writing or any other manner the true mechanism of thought. It was a dictation of thought beyond any control-and this was very important-any control exercised by reason and beyond any aesthetic or moral concern. Barring re-reading and editing the authors consequently forbade themselves "d'apprecier encours de route le produit de cette activité" from appreciating en route the product of this activity Breton 1961. At times losing "syntactical clarity" and "grammatical intelligibility" L'Immaculée Conception interrogates what it means to be human and divine and tackles sacred Christian doctrine in a meeting of Breton's and Éluard's characteristic wits Conley p. 607. Skirting all censorship and demonstrating an intelligence defiantly detached from the human faculties of reason and logic L'Immaculée Conception reinforces the Surrealist style of surprise and inverted expectation. This first edition copy is signed by André Breton to Monique Fong a.k.a. Monique Fong Wust with the following inscription: "'Le rosier d'écume de mer' à Monique Fong avec les affectueux compliments d'André Breton" "'The sea-foam rose' to Monique Font with the affectionate compliments of André Breton" In this personalised message Breton quotes from the penultimate chapter's final section "L'idée du devenir": "Si c'était à recommencer si c'était à recommencer. Le rosier d'écume de mer est debout à côté de moi dans ce portrait poétiquement définitif" Breton and Éluard p. 110 If I had to star over if I had to start over. the sea-foam rose stands at my side in this poetically-definitive portrait. A Surrealist writer and intellectual closely connected with many other prominent champions of the movement Fong Wust first met Breton at a party hosted by Claude Lévi-Strauss and would later maintain a lifelong correspondence with Marcel Duchamp-documenting much of the movement's aims ambitions and successes. The book is number 179 of 2000 copies printed on hand-made paper from Sorel-Moussel. Formerly "la véritable capitale du papier" the true capital of paper Sorel-Moussel is a village in northern France renown for its paper mills constructed in 1814 and operated by famed printer Firmin Didot which ceased production in the later half of the twentieth century Cathelinais p. 5. References: André Breton "Le sel de la semaine" interview by Judith Jasmin Radio-Canada 27 February 1961 C. Cathelinais "L'ancienne papeterie devenue entrepôt abritera une turbine électrique" Paris-Normande 26 February 1987 Katharine Conley "Writing the Virgin's Body: Breton and Eluard's Immaculée Conception" The French Review 67.4 1994 600-608 BRETON ANDRÉ and ÉLUARD PAUL. L'Immaculée Conception. Paris: Surréalistes 1930. Quarto 7¼ x 9¼ inch; 184 x 235 mm number 179 of 2000 copies printed on papier impondérable hand-made in Sorel-Moussel; pp. 130; originals wrappers glassine; housed in a custom presentation box. Front wrapper detached but held snugly under glassine text block with splits. Fading to spine and perimeter of wrapper. RARE SIGNED AND WITH AN INTERESTING ASSOCIATION. Surréalistes unknown
1930réf. 2504Paris: Surréalistes 1930. First edition. Original wrappers. Good. FIRST EDITION ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ANDRÉ BRETON. Written within the span of only three weeks during the summer of 1930 André Breton and Paul Éluard's L'Immaculée Conception is a quintessential example of the Surrealist practice of automatic writing. While Surrealism today may at first evoke painters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí Surrealism was demarcated by its founders namely Breton as an experiment as much if not more in language and literature as the visual arts. Thus the process of automatic writing which he developed across his lifetime sits at the heart of the first Surrealist Manifesto 1924-and L'Immaculée Conception represents a pinnacle automatic text executed by two of the major Surrealist vanguards themselves. In a 1961 interview with Judith Jasmin Breton maintained that the mission of Surrealism has been the same since 1924 and that Surrealism continues to be defined as: "automatisme psychique pur par lequel on se proposait d'exprimer par écrit ou de tout autre manière le véritable mécanisme de la pensée. Il s'agissait d'une dicté de la pensée en dehors de tout contrôle-et ceci était très important-de tout contrôle exercé par la raison et en dehors de toute préoccupation esthétique ou morale." Breton 1961 pure psychic automation by which one proposes to express in writing or any other manner the true mechanism of thought. It was a dictation of thought beyond any control-and this was very important-any control exercised by reason and beyond any aesthetic or moral concern. Barring re-reading and editing the authors consequently forbade themselves "d'apprecier encours de route le produit de cette activité" from appreciating en route the product of this activity Breton 1961. At times losing "syntactical clarity" and "grammatical intelligibility" L'Immaculée Conception interrogates what it means to be human and divine and tackles sacred Christian doctrine in a meeting of Breton's and Éluard's characteristic wits Conley p. 607. Skirting all censorship and demonstrating an intelligence defiantly detached from the human faculties of reason and logic L'Immaculée Conception reinforces the Surrealist style of surprise and inverted expectation. This first edition copy is signed by André Breton to Monique Fong a.k.a. Monique Fong Wust with the following inscription: "'Le rosier d'écume de mer' à Monique Fong avec les affectueux compliments d'André Breton" "'The sea-foam rose' to Monique Font with the affectionate compliments of André Breton" In this personalised message Breton quotes from the penultimate chapter's final section "L'idée du devenir": "Si c'était à recommencer si c'était à recommencer. Le rosier d'écume de mer est debout à côté de moi dans ce portrait poétiquement définitif" Breton and Éluard p. 110 If I had to star over if I had to start over. the sea-foam rose stands at my side in this poetically-definitive portrait. A Surrealist writer and intellectual closely connected with many other prominent champions of the movement Fong Wust first met Breton at a party hosted by Claude Lévi-Strauss and would later maintain a lifelong correspondence with Marcel Duchamp-documenting much of the movement's aims ambitions and successes. The book is number 179 of 2000 copies printed on hand-made paper from Sorel-Moussel. Formerly "la véritable capitale du papier" the true capital of paper Sorel-Moussel is a village in northern France renown for its paper mills constructed in 1814 and operated by famed printer Firmin Didot which ceased production in the later half of the twentieth century Cathelinais p. 5. References: André Breton "Le sel de la semaine" interview by Judith Jasmin Radio-Canada 27 February 1961 C. Cathelinais "L'ancienne papeterie devenue entrepôt abritera une turbine électrique" Paris-Normande 26 February 1987 Katharine Conley "Writing the Virgin's Body: Breton and Eluard's Immaculée Conception" The French Review 67.4 1994 600-608 BRETON ANDRÉ and ÉLUARD PAUL. L'Immaculée Conception. Paris: Surréalistes 1930. Quarto 7¼ x 9¼ inch; 184 x 235 mm number 179 of 2000 copies printed on papier impondérable hand-made in Sorel-Moussel; pp. 130; originals wrappers glassine; housed in a custom presentation box. Front wrapper detached but held snugly under glassine text block with splits. Fading to spine and perimeter of wrapper. RARE SIGNED AND WITH AN INTERESTING ASSOCIATION. Surréalistes unknown books
1944réf. 18798Geneva: Editions des Trois Collines 1944. First edition. First edition a numbered copy on vergé paper. Bound by Joanne Sonnichsen a coptic-style binding utilizing the most ancient structure as an experimental modern binding with her own paste-paper boards the bottom edges strengthened with leather strips onlays of dyed vellum top edge sprinkled decorated paper endsheets clamshell box. The binding was made for an exhibition at the Museé de la Reliure in Granville France in 1997. The binder's article about her experiments with the coptic structure "Playing with Structure: A 4th-Century Form for a 20th-Century Binding"appeared in Bookways: A Quarterly for the Book Arts Nos. 13 & 14 October 1994-January 1995 pp. 70-72. Editions des Trois Collines unknown
1947réf. D17783Paris: Mourlot Freres 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Copy 9 of 300 examples signed by Eluard and the artist Engel-Pak slipcased with a second copy an out-of-series proof unsigned but with an original drawing for the title drawn by Engel-Pak on thin paper and initialled design not used hand-lettered by Eluard and with three additional sheets hand-lettered by Eluard for the title the colophon and a plate list this last also unused. Housed in two chemises within a vellum-backed slipcase. 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches 32.5 x 23.5 cm; 16 sheets printed in color lithography; plus the additional material noted above in the second copy which is printed on paper 1 cm taller than the published work. This is likely a participant's copy possibly Eluard's own. Mourlot Freres hardcover
1944réf. 18798Geneva: Editions des Trois Collines 1944. First edition. First edition a numbered copy on vergé paper. Bound by Joanne Sonnichsen a coptic-style binding utilizing the most ancient structure as an experimental modern binding with her own paste-paper boards the bottom edges strengthened with leather strips onlays of dyed vellum top edge sprinkled decorated paper endsheets clamshell box. The binding was made for an exhibition at the Museé de la Reliure in Granville France in 1997. The binder's article about her experiments with the coptic structure "Playing with Structure: A 4th-Century Form for a 20th-Century Binding"appeared in Bookways: A Quarterly for the Book Arts Nos. 13 & 14 October 1994-January 1995 pp. 70-72. Editions des Trois Collines unknown books
1947réf. D17783Paris: Mourlot Freres 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Copy 9 of 300 examples signed by Eluard and the artist Engel-Pak slipcased with a second copy an out-of-series proof unsigned but with an original drawing for the title drawn by Engel-Pak on thin paper and initialled design not used hand-lettered by Eluard and with three additional sheets hand-lettered by Eluard for the title the colophon and a plate list this last also unused. Housed in two chemises within a vellum-backed slipcase. 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches 32.5 x 23.5 cm; 16 sheets printed in color lithography; plus the additional material noted above in the second copy which is printed on paper 1 cm taller than the published work. This is likely a participant's copy possibly Eluard's own. Mourlot Freres hardcover books
1943réf. B-04-040017Revue Hommage1: Dessins de Bonnard Dufy Maillol Matisse Picasso & Hommage 2: Dessins de Matisse Art magazine published in Monaco and directed by Philippe Fontana. For this edition only the first and second number were published. Hommage 1: Monaco December 1943. First number of Hommage magazine Folio in original grey folder wrapper. The collection containing: one poem by Pierre Emmanuel in fac-simile illustrated by Leon Zack in sepia and the following prints: Etude by Bonnard Symphonie by Dufy in double page two nudes by Maillol of which one in double page two portraits by Matisse and a satire by Picasso in double page. Hommage 2: Dessins de Matisse Monaco Juin 1944. Poems de Paul Eluard foreword by Andre Rouveyre. Folio in original grey folder wrapper. The collection containing: 3 poems in fac-simile by Eluard preceded by an original lithograph by Leonor Fini on the frontispiece an original photograph by Brassai of Matisse at work introductory text by Rouveyre 10 prints reproducing the original drawings by Matisse for this edition complete of two blueprints with explanations for two portraits followed by a letter in fac -simile by Matisse with the list of the drawings. Limited and numbered edition of 1050 copies. Very good condition. Extra pictures on request. Philippe Fontana
1943réf. B-04-040017Revue Hommage1: Dessins de Bonnard Dufy Maillol Matisse Picasso & Hommage 2: Dessins de Matisse Art magazine published in Monaco and directed by Philippe Fontana. For this edition only the first and second number were published. Hommage 1: Monaco December 1943. First number of Hommage magazine Folio in original grey folder wrapper. The collection containing: one poem by Pierre Emmanuel in fac-simile illustrated by Leon Zack in sepia and the following prints: Etude by Bonnard Symphonie by Dufy in double page two nudes by Maillol of which one in double page two portraits by Matisse and a satire by Picasso in double page. Hommage 2: Dessins de Matisse Monaco Juin 1944. Poems de Paul Eluard foreword by Andre Rouveyre. Folio in original grey folder wrapper. The collection containing: 3 poems in fac-simile by Eluard preceded by an original lithograph by Leonor Fini on the frontispiece an original photograph by Brassai of Matisse at work introductory text by Rouveyre 10 prints reproducing the original drawings by Matisse for this edition complete of two blueprints with explanations for two portraits followed by a letter in fac -simile by Matisse with the list of the drawings. Limited and numbered edition of 1050 copies. Very good condition. Extra pictures on request. Philippe Fontana books
1934réf. 81109Paris: Albert Skira 1934. Fine. Albert Skira Paris 1934 24.50 x 31 cm broché First edition. Minor rubbing to the spine and along the edges of the covers otherwise a pleasing clean copy. Cover illustrated by Marcel Duchamp. Literary and artistic contributions by Pierre Mabille Brassaï Paul Eluard Ambroise Vollard Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz Salvador Dali Pierre Courthion Louise de Vilmorin André Breton Pierre-Jean Jouve Benjamin Péret Gisèle Prassinos Hans Bellmer Léon-Paul Fargue Stéphane Mallarmé Paul Klee Yves Tanguy Wassily Kandinsky Paul Cézanne. Albert Skira unknown
1920réf. 74039Paris: Proverbe 1920. Fine. Proverbe Paris 1er Avril 1920 14 x 22.50 cm 1 numéro sur 1 double feuille Very rare first edition of the third issue of this Dadaist review which would comprise six in total. Contributions by Paul Eluard Louis Aragon Francis Picabia Jean Paulhan Théodore Fraenkel Isadora Duncan Paul Dermée Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Jean Cocteau Tristan Tzara Jacques-Emile Blanche Philippe Soupault. A pleasant copy. Proverbe unknown
réf. 14221Paris chez A.-J. Gonon, 1917. In-12, 38 pp., broché, couverture rempliée papier marbré vert, titre doré sur la couverture. (Couvertures fortement décolorées, déchirures aux coiffes.)
1947réf. 2239Paris, Librairie Les Nourritures terrestres, 1947. Volume in-folio (335 x 260 mm), en feuilles, couverture rempliée illustrée d'une vignette gravée, chemise dos de percaline verte titrée or et étui éditeur. Première édition illustrée. 31 EAUX-FORTES EN NOIR HORS-TEXTE ET UN FRONTISPICE EN COULEUR GRAVÉS PAR OSCAR DOMINGUEZ. Le texte manuscrit de Paul Éluard est reproduit en héliogravure enluminé par la gravure de Dominguez.Tirage: 1 ex. sur vergé ancien + 220 ex. sur Vélin de Lana (celui-ci n° 87). Roger Lacourière a assuré l'entière impression de l'ouvrage. Parfait exemplaire, en condition d'origine, de ce très beau livre gravé. Vélin de Lana teinté exempt de rousseurs, ce qui est plutôt rare.
réf. 017682Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand d'Aussy, Fabliaux ou contes du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle traduits ou extraits d'après divers manuscrits du temps ; Avec des notes historiques & critiques, & les imitations qui ont été faites de ces Contes depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours [&] Observations sur les troubadours, par l'éditeur des Fabliaux [&] Contes dévots, fables et romans anciens ; pour servir de suite aux Fabliaux, par M. Le Grand. Paris, Eugène Onfroy, 1779 & Paris, chez l'auteur, 1781. 4 volumes in-8, [4]-CIX-[5]-414-[2]p [y compris la figure face à la p.1], [4]-430-[1]p, [4]-[2]-68-468p & [4]-XLVI-[2]-400p. Edition originale complète de cet important ensemble de contes, bien complet du supplément sur les troubadours, relié ici en tête du tome 3 avec faux-titre ([2]-68p). « Exceptionnel exemplaire en grand papier » (Piasa) vergé et grand de marges (203*127mm) avec certains feuillets encore aux témoins. « Ce recueil contient un grand nombre de morceaux piquants par la naïveté et par le ton satirique, double caractère qui distingue éminemment les ouvrages des plus anciens de nos poètes ; aucun livre ne fait mieux connaître les moeurs d'une époque qui ne mérite pas tous les regrets qu'on est tenté de lui accorder. » (PP Augustin & Alois de Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la compagnie de Jésus. Liège, Grandmont-Donders, 1859. Cinquième série. p.251). Provenance : Paul Eluard (1895-1952), poète, avec son bel ex-libris gravé par Max Ernst (1891-1976) portant la devise « après moi le Sommeil » ; Paris, vente Piasa, 24 novembre 2005, n°186. Jolie reliure parlante : le fer dans les caissons porte un masque, un bouclier et des trompes. Reliure signée Bozerian, légèrement postérieure (ca.1800), plein veau blond glacé, dos lisse orné, pièces de titre et tomaison maroquin noir, dos orné, roulette encadrant les plats, roulette sur les coupes et en bordure des contreplats, tranches dorées. Mors et coiffes parfois un peu frottées, quelques coins un peu usés. Très bel exemplaire à la belle provenance.
1936réf. 91033GLM | Paris mai 1936 à mars 1939 | 14.2 x 19.7 cm | 9 volumes brochés sous étui
1930réf. 82015Reliure postérieure demi-chagrin rouge. Dos à nerfs. Tête dorée. Couverture et dos conservés.
1945réf. 3135Aimé Maeght Editeur 1945. In-8 broché de 85 pages au format 21 x 24,5 cm. Magnifiques couvertures, rempliées, lithographiées en couleurs. Dos bien carré. Plats et intérieur frais, malgré d'infimes et presques imperceptibles plis, micro-coupures et frottis à la jaquette. 50 magnifiques lithographies originales d'André Marchand tirées par Mourlot. Textes inédits de Georges Spyridaki, René Lacôte, Georges Hugnet, Gabriel Audisio, Raymond Queneau, D.-H. Lawrence, Pierre Emmanuel, Luc Decaunes, Léon-Marie Brest, Jean Grenier, Antonio Machado, Marie Mauron, Paul Eluard, etc, réunis par Jacques Kober et Jacques Gardies. Les pierres lithographiques ont été rayées par l'artiste. Un des 49 exemplaires numérotés sur papier vélin d'Arches, du tirage de tête, signés par l'artiste ( n° 26 ). Edition originale en superbe état de fraicheur. Précieux et rarissime exemplaire enrichi d'un magnifique dessin original au crayon, pleine page, signé, de André Marchand. Les pierres lithographiques ont été rayées par l'artiste.
1929réf. 29707Exemplaire Pierre Drieu la Rochelle Paris, Gallimard, (19 mars) 1929. 1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) de 133 p. et [1] f. Broché. Édition originale. Un des exemplaires imprimés du service de presse. Envoi signé : « à Drieu, Paul Éluard ».
1949réf. 53443Paris Maeght 1949 Grand in-4, en feuilles, couverture illustre (embotage de l'diteur).Edition originale, illustre de 12 gravures au burin hors texte d'Albert Flocon. Tirage limit 200 exemplaires numrots. Un des 26 premiers exemplaires sur vlin d'Arches, contenant une double suite des burins, en noir sur vlin d'Arches et en blanc sur fond noir sur papier du Japon.