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1955réf. 87650Paris: Flammarion 1955. First Edition. First printing. 12mo 19cm. Printed card wrappers; 2344pp. Bright well-preserved copy with little indication of use - the wrappers remain vividly colored; the text is unopened pages uncut but does exhibit some of the expected toning to paper at margins; Very Good or better. Laid in is an announcement for a lecture by Alquié undated "La Conception Surréaliste de L'Amour". GERSHMAN p.1. Flammarion unknown books
1947réf. 88266Paris: Sagittaire 1947. First French Edition. First Impression regular issue. Octavo 18.5cm; original printed card wrappes; 67-2226pp. From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with 7 lines of penciled notes on rear wrapper and some light pencil markings in text. Light wear to extremities gentle sunning to spine mild dust-soil to wrappers with some of the usual tanning to text edges; Very Good. A significant surrealist text about the discovery of love through loss written while Breton and his third wife Elisa were self-exiled in Canada. Portions of the work were originally published in New York. 88266. Sagittaire unknown books
1955réf. 88267Paris: Gallimard 1955. First Edition Thus. First Impression regular issue. Octavo 18.75cm; original printed card wrappers; 910-2071 8pp black & white plates. Light wear to extremities some trivial dust-soil subtle tanning to text edges; Near Fine. New edition of this key Surrealist work originally published in 1932 in which Breton explores the connection between the dream world and the waking world and how the techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. 88267. Gallimard unknown books
1947réf. 86427Paris: Éditions Surréalistes 1947. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 14pp; photographic frontispiece and terminal ad leaf on glossy paper; overprinted in red on front cover and title page. Covers toned as usual; text mildly aged but remains supple and free of soil. Very Good. The frontispiece photograph is attributed to Man Ray from his series of photographs of the ruins of De Sade's chateau in Provence. Important post-war manifesto of the "Cause" group breaking the Surrealists' connection to all political parties and especially denouncing the Stalinization of the Communists. According to Gershman the text was written by Henri Pastoureau. Signed in type at conclusion of text by 48 members including Breton Alexandrian Bellmer Baskine and others. GERSHMAN Bibliography of the Surrealist Movement in France p.56. Éditions Surréalistes unknown books
1938réf. 87425Paris: Éditions Denoël 1938. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Printed paper wrappers; 261pp. Text mostly unopened. Fading to spine with scuffing to publisher's price-sticker; expected toning to text; still a tight lightly worn copy Very Good. Text entirely in French. There was no numbered issue. Quite presentable copy of Calas' first surrealist work written shortly after his relocation to Paris from his native Athens. Foyers d'Incendie "Hearths of Arson" based in large part on Calas' reading of Trotsky's theoretical works on the role of literature in revolution won high praise from André Breton and would become one of the great forgotten texts of Marxist Surrealism never being reprinted in French and translated into only a few languages. Calas would later move to the U.S. where he collaborated with Charles Henri Ford on the American surrealist journal View. GERSHMAN p.12. Éditions Denoël unknown books
1948réf. 87424Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire 1948. First Edition. Trade issue after 587 numbered copies in various limitations. 12mo. Printed glossy-paper wrappers; 1125pp. A clean tight well-preserved copy in the original wrappers with expected toning to text; Very Good. The full-page lithographic illustrations by Masson being on better paper are clean and free of marginal darkening. Text entirely in Frenc; the text includes Breton's preace to Aimée Césaire's "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal." GERSHMAN p.9. Éditions du Sagittaire unknown books
1952réf. 87538Paris: Soleil Noir / Presses du Livre Français 1952. First Edition. Trade issue after 50 copies on Alfa. 12mo. Original printed wrappers; 1271pp; illus frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of plates. Slight toning to spine else a tight Near Fine copy; the text is completely unopened i.e. pages are uncut clean and supple with practically no toning to the margins. Prospectus and order form laid-in. Text entirely in French. Premier issue of Di Dio's short-lived surrealist quarterly which ended after the double issue 3/4 in early 1953. Contributors include Antonin Artaud Aimé Cesaire Julien Gracq Philippe Dechartre others. Illustrations by Max Ernst Paul Klee Vasily Kandinsky etc. Uncommon especially in this condition. Soleil Noir / Presses du Livre Français unknown books
1949réf. 87656Paris: Gallimard 1949. Second edition in same year as first. 12mo 16.5cm. Original printed wrappers; 1082pp. A very fresh copy with just a bit of toning to spine; text entirely unopened pages uncut; Near Fine and unusual thus. Text entirely in French. Gallimard unknown books
1963réf. 171640Paris: Galerie André François Petit 1963. Vintage catalog for the landmark 1963 exhibition. Illustrated in black-and-white and color. Very Good plus in saddle-stapled wrappers with light foxing to the first pages and wrapper versos. Galerie André François Petit unknown books
réf. 367757Paris France: Maeght Editeur 2000. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies '21/100' signed by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Matta total printing of 120 copies. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase box also fine. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies '21/100' signed by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Matta total printing of 120 copies. OCLC lists two holdings none in the United States Paris- Bibliotheque Kandinsky and Bibliotheque nationale de France. Nicely illustrated with an original color lithograph measuring twelve inches by four inches by Roberto Matta. Sebastian Antonia Matta Echaurrenm 1912-2002 abstract expressionist and surrealist artist was born in Santiago Chile. Vénus Khoury-Ghata French-Lebanese poet and novelist was born in 1937 in Bsharri Lebanon. She has lived in Paris since 1972 and has published several novels and collections of poems. and has won the following awards:1980- Prize Apollinaire for "Les ombres et leurs cris"; 1987- Prize Mallarmé for "Un Faux pas du soleil"; 1992- Grand Prix de la Société des gens de lettres for Fables pour un people d'argile; Prize Jules Supervielle for "Anthologie personnelle"; Prize Baie des anges for "Le moine l'ottoman et la femme du grand argentier"; 2011- Prize of Goncourt for Poetry for all her works; 2012- Poetry Prize Pierrette Micheloud for "Où vont les arbres." per Wikipedia. Maeght Editeur unknown books
1936réf. 87495London: The Surrealist Group in England 1936. September. Small 4to. 18 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Texts in English and French. Issued shortly after the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London from 11 June to 14 July 1936. Ten b&w reproductions. London: The Surrealist Group in England, unknown books
1924réf. 2729Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Roche's surreal dadaist roman à clef exposing the misogynistic world of the French avant-garde. With annotations likely in Roche's hand. Like too many women artists of the early twentieth century French writer and artist Juliette Roche 1884 - 1980 has been long overshadowed by her male contemporaries. Roche came of age amidst leading artistic and literary salons of early 20th century Paris. She studied at Académie Ranson then considered the absolute best art school in Paris and was an early adopter of Cubism. However she is most closely associated with Dadaism. Despite Dada being a movement of absolute rebellion it harbored the normalized misogyny of the early twentieth century. Roche's most explicit critique of this discrepancy of rebellion vs repression can be found in La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac Adam her groundbreaking novella. Part satire and part Dada nonsense the thinly veiled roman à clef is a prime example of the daring poetic style that Roche developed while living in New York during World War I. Having watched artistic vanguards come and go in Paris' salons and exhibitions Roche observed the New York City hijinks of Francis Picabia French 1879 - 1953 and Marcel Duchamp 1887 - 1968 with a level of detachment that alluded their American peers. She had close access to Picabia perhaps too close: in 1917 he and his wife Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia moved into an apartment directly beneath one Roche shared with her husband Albert Gleizes a French artist and philosopher who helped popularize Cubism on the Upper West Side. While Roche admired Picabia's iconoclasm she was disturbed by the misogyny she saw in works like his manometres where woman as 'la machine' was at best a manipulable object at worst the butt of a private joke. If taking Roche's ambivalence towards and her neighborly proximity to Picabia into consideration the novella could be inspired in part by an age-old story: pure contempt of one's neighbor. The novella is an indirect indictment of certain illicit behaviors Roche found annoying and dangerous. She synthesizes her fellow expatriates' personalities and physical traits to create the decadent Mac'Adam and the men he encounters on the day of his demise. Picabia becomes Mac'Adam. Swiss writer and boxer Arthur Craven 1887 - 1918 lends his name to the protagonist while becoming Lloyd Willow. Juliette Roche herself appears as Juliette Granite a play on words since roche means rock in French. Roche spins the narrative in poetic and surreal fragments at turns absurd and others told in a stream-of-consciousness style. La Minéralisation moves beyond conventional storytelling to allow readers into the minds of her characters through rich interior monologues revealing in each case her estimation of the particular model's idiosyncrasies. Roche seemed to find the antics of the all-male world of the Dadaists to be too limited and they're wickedly satirized among these pages. Written in ink on the first page is "Publié dans 'La Vie des Lettres' en 1921 / New York 1918" and there are a few words written on page 20 in the same hand. It appears to be Roche's handwriting from the few samples we've seen but we can't guarantee it. Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. Thin octavo 33pp terminal blank original printed wrappers stapled as issued; custom box. Small tear and split at top of spine; a near-fine extremely well-preserved copy. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We can find records of no other copies that have been on the market. References: Burke Carolyn "Recollecting Dada: Juliette Roche." Women in Dada: Essays on Sex Gender and Identity edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse MIT Press 1998 557. Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost unknown books
1936réf. 2345Paris: Jeanne Bucher 1936. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION THE PRINTER JACQUES GROU-RADENEZ'S COPY WITH TWO LONG PERSONAL INSCRIPTIONS BY HUGNET. WITH COVER MY MARCEL DUCHAMP. ONE OF ONLY 294 COPIES IN THE EDITION; AN OUT-OF-SERIES COPY LABELED "EXEMPLAIRE NO. G.H.". "This is Georges Hugnet's first volume of 'poemes-decoupages.' The title echoes Andre Mallarme's Un Coup de Des N'Abolira Jamais le hazard 1895 and Hugnet's poems printed on the left-hand pages of the book mirror the unusual spacing and various typefaces and sizes of Un Coup de Des. Hugnet had joined the Surrealists by 1932 and the collages on the right-hand pages centered around nude images cut out of Paris Magazine rehearse typical Surrealist themes. The cover by Marcel Duchamp spells out the title in letters containing the names of a whole Surrealist pantheon including Sade Freud Rimbaud Paracelsus Swift Heraclitus Roussel Chaplin Jarry Uccello and Saint-Juste and also a Man Ray photograph of DuChamp's assisted readymade 'Why Not Sneeze Rrose Sélavy' consisting of 152 marble cubes the size of sugar cubes a thermometer and a cuttlebone inside a small cage" Roth 101 p.92. An extraordinary association copy signed and inscribed twice by Hugnet: On the half-title Hugnet has written a warm inscription dated 1936 the year of publication thanking Grou-Radenez for his work on the book. Beneath that in 1963 he added an additional inscription to the new owner of the book the surrealist photographer Leo Dohmen praising Grou-Radenez who had been arrested and murdered by the Nazi's for hiding Jewish children and aiding the French Resistance. Paris: Editions Jeanne Bucher 1936. Original photographically embossed wrappers hand-sewn as issued; housed in beautiful custom box. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photo collages several hand-colored. Only mild wear to wrappers; remnants of paper at spine ends we have not been able to confirm that there was originally a paper spine under the external sewing; all other copies we've seen have not had a paper spine. A beautiful copy. Jeanne Bucher unknown books
1968réf. 46364New York 1968. First edition. A very good cop a few corner tape marks and pin pricks folds. 17x 22 inches. Published by Allen Van Newkirk later arrested for holding up a Toys-R-Us store in 2005 and who in the 1960s charged the stage during a Kenneth Koch reading firing a pistol loaded with blanks declaring "death to bourgeois poets" the free newspaper of the streets was an important if short lived publication helping to shape the counterculture’s understanding of surrealism’s relationship to contemporary social movements and is perhaps best summed up by the subtitle of this issue taken from the surrealists' open letter in 1925: “Art matters little to us we profoundly hope that revolutions wars and the colonial insurrections will annihilate this Western civilization whose vermin you defend even in the Orient and we call upon this destruction as the least unacceptable state of things for the mind…We assert that we have found treason and whatever else can harm the security of the State more reconcilable with poetry than the sale of ‘large quantities of lard’ to a nation of pigs and dogs." Includes poetry and quotes from Ed Dorn LeRoi Jones Surrealists Rimbaud Smohalla Nez Perce tribe Diane Di Prima Sam Abrams Robert Kelly Margaret Randall Victor Hernandez Cruz and others. And an illustration attributed to “CHE” of a modified weapon designed to launch Molotov cocktails. Scarce. OCLC locates only six copies of this issue: NYU Yale Univ. Kansas Univ. Indiana Northern Illinois Univ. While we could locate a few auction and sales records for other issues we could find none for this issue. unknown books
1956réf. 227075Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1956. First. paperback. very good. With b/w illustrations throughout. 168pp. Tall 8vo green printed wrappers spine ends a bit worn. Paris: Librairie Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1956. A very good copy of this uncommon surrealist periodical. Jean-Jacques Pauvert unknown books
1948réf. 27263Paris: Éditions surréalistes 1948. First edition. 13 p. 17 cm. Wrappers fine. One of 30 numbered copies on Marais paper. Fine. An anti-clerical tract signed in type by Adolphe Acker Sarane Alexandrian Maurice Baskine Jean-Louis Bédouin Hans Bellmer Jean Bergstrasser Roger Bergstrasser Maurice Blanchard Joë Bousquet Francis Bouvet Victor Brauner André Breton Jean Brun Pierre Cuvillier Pierre Demarne Charles Duits Jean Ferry André Frédérique Guy Gillequin Arthur Harfaux Jindrich Heisler Georges Henein Maurice Henry Jacques Hérold Véra Hérold Marcel Jean Alain Jouffroy Nadine Kraïnik Jerzy Kujawski Pierre Lé Stan Lélio Pierre Mabille Jehan Mayoux Francis Meunier Nora Mitrani Henri Parisot Henri Pastoureau Benjamin Péret Gaston Puel Louis Quesnel Jean-Dominique Rey Claude Richard Jean Schuster Iaroslav Serpan Seigle Hansrudy Stauffacher Claude Tarnaud Toyen Clovis Trouille Robert Valançay Jean Vidal Patrick Waldberg. Éditions surréalistes unknown books
réf. B295978-1Paris Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1957. No. 2 Printemps 1957 of 5 issues published in all 1956-1959. 167 1pp. Prof. illus. partly in color and with loose insert Le Royaume de la Terre. Sm. oblong 4to. Orig. blue wraps. Contributions by Joyece Mansour André Breton Robert Lebel Benjamin Peret Fernando Pessoa. Illustrations by Leonara Carrington Man Ray Toyen Wolfgang Paalen and Meret Oppenheim. Very good condition. Paris (Jean-Jacques Pauvert), 1957. paperback books
réf. B296158-1Argenteuil Robert Radford 1974. 79 1pp. Prof illus. Sm. oblong 4to. Orig. wraps. slightly worn. Ce numéro a été réalisé sous la responsabilité de Stéphane Arbutina Pascal Colard Lionel Labouhume Daniel Radford Robert Radford. Argenteuil (Robert Radford), 1974. paperback books
réf. B295115-1Paris Librairie José Corti 1930. 35 1pp. 8 plates including by Man Ray Yves Tanguy and Salvador Dali. 4to. Orig. wraps. slighlty worn. Texts by Breton Éluard Crevel Char Péret Marcel Duchamp Aragon and Georges Sadoul and others. The issue published in Oct. 1930 opens with an advertisement for Breton's First and Second Manifeste du Surrealisme. Paris (Librairie José Corti), 1930. paperback books
réf. B295121-1Paris Librairie José Corti 1933. 55 1pp. 8 plates including by Alberto Giacometti René Magritte Max Ernst André Breton Valentine Hugo Salvador Dali Yves Tanguy. 4to. Orig. wraps. Texts by Breton Buñuel Char Tzara and Péret and others. The issue published in May 1933 opens with an advertisement for the next surrealist periodical Minotaure. Paris (Librairie José Corti), 1933. paperback books
réf. B295118-1Paris Librairie José Corti 1931. 35 1pp. 8 plates including by Joan Miro Alberto Giacometti Man Ray Valentine Hugo Salvador Dali and Clovis Trouille. 4to. Orig. wraps somewhat worn. Texts by Breton Éluard Char Tanguy Max Ernst Pierre Unik Crevel Aragon and others. The issue was published in Dec. 1931. Paris (Librairie José Corti), 1931. paperback books
1969réf. 304609First edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated in color and b/w. Text in German. Introduction by Jose Pierre Wieland Schmeid and Frantisek Smejkal. Original stiff blue wrappers. Very good. 127 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Germany, Bankunst Galerie paperback books
1963réf. 171640Paris: Galerie André François Petit 1963. Vintage catalog for the landmark 1963 exhibition. Illustrated in black-and-white and color. Very Good plus in saddle-stapled wrappers with light foxing to the first pages and wrapper versos. Galerie André François Petit unknown
1950réf. 20415AB1950. Paris Editioons du Sagittaire 1950 23 : 15 cm. 1 leaf 226 pages with many dual-tone and b/w illustrations 6 leaves advertisment. Half calf original coloure wrappers bound in. SURREALIST ALMANAC OF THE HALF CENTURY - Calendar of the World Tour of Tolerable Inventions by André Breton and Benjamin Péret. First edition text in French. unknown
1961réf. 89467Paris: Le Terrain Vague 1961-65. Eight octavo digest-size issues. Pictorial wrappers printed in colors; each issue ca. 124-132pp; illus; ads. Gentle rubbing and soil to most issues but in all a complete attractive and perfectly sound run easily Very Good. Text entirely in French. Breton's final periodical venture a continuation of sorts of his long succession of Surrealist journals that included La Révolution Surréaliste 1924-1929 Surréalisme au Service de la Revolution 1930-1933 and Minotaure 1933-1939. La Brêche is the definitive journal of late-period Surrealism very much pointing the way towards the movements - Pop Art Situationism Abstract Expressionism etc - that would soon supplant it. The journal ceased publication in November 1965 presumably due to Breton's declining health; he would die in September 1966. Beyond Breton himself who contributes at least one article to every issue the list of contributors to La Brêche is impressive including Radovan Asvic Jean-Claude Barbé Robert Benayoun Alain Joubert J.-F. Revel Pierre Alechinsky Joyce Mansour Annie Lebrun and many others. GERSHMAN p.48. Le Terrain Vague unknown
