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201811387Octon France: Verdigris Press 2018. Artist's book one of 20 regular copies all on Hahnemuhle paper each signed and numbered by the artist Judith Rothchild and the printer Mark Lintott. Page size: 2 x 10 inches opening to 20L x 10 W inches. Bound by Mark Lintott: leporello fold 8pp first page is verso of titlepage with author title artist and press printed in black loose as issued housed in custom-made cloth over boards blue and gold pastepaper on front panel blue paper label on spine with title author artist and press printed in black matching blue slipcase printed with light grey woodcut letters reading "l'oeuf casse" in abstract . Ms. Rothchild has succeeded in creating 3 successive images of a rolling egg with her velvety organic engravings culminating with the egg showing a crack followed by an image of a broken egg with top removed - revealing the interior. The reader sees and feels the motion as the oval form moves across the top of the pages to its ultimate end. The text set in Univers by Mark Lintott and printed letterpress by him runs below the rolling images of the egg. A companion piece to the previous Verdigris Press book "Quelque chose a roule" this is smaller but no less lovely. The Eluard text cites the past a a broken egg white the future is covered or protected. Verdigris Press unknown books
19352044Éluard Paul and André Breton. <b>A Postcard Signed by Both Surrealists.</b> 1935.<br /><br />Postcard measuring 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches 88 x 140 mm.<br /><br />Postcard signed by the two leading Surrealists Paul Éluard and André Breton to Brussels music publisher Georges Vriamont. Éluard has addressed the card in black ink and written: "Très amical souvenir" signing it underneath. Breton added his signature in green ink under Éluard's signature. The verso is a black-and-white photograph of four bridges in Prague; the postcard was issued by Z. Broz of Prague.<br /><br />Éluard and Breton traveled to Prague from March 27 to April 10 1935 following the opening of the first Czech Surrealist group exhibition. Breton gave four talks on Surrealist art while Éluard spoke on Surrealist poetry. Gérard Durozoi History of the Surrealist Movement The University of Chicago Press 2002 page 294.<br /><br />An interesting bit of Surrealist ephemera signed by the two leading Surrealists. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling. Near Fine. books
194317611New York: Black Sun Press 1943. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good . First edition thus of this surrealist collaboration between Ernst and Eluard with translation by Hugh Chisolm. A superior copy in illustrated boards. This copy INSCRIBED by Ernst "To Walter and Lucy Bayne Cordially Max Ernst". Quite scarce thus. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Black Sun Press hardcover books
1947D17783Paris: 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. <br/><br/> Mourlot Freres hardcover books
194418798Geneva: 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. <br/><br/> Editions des Trois Collines hardcover books
1943B-04-040017<p><b>Revue Hommage1: </b>Dessins de Bonnard Dufy Maillol Matisse Picasso & <b>Hommage 2: </b>Dessins de Matisse </p><p>Art magazine published in Monaco and directed by Philippe Fontana. For this edition only the first and second number were published.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Very good condition. Extra pictures on request. </p> Philippe Fontana books
1951B-14-020003<p><b>Dons des Feminines.</b></p><p>Penrose Valentine. Preface de Paul Eluard. Etching by Pablo Picasso. Paris "Les Pas Perdus" 1951. Original edition illustrated by halftone reproductions after collages by Valentine Penrose. Limited in 400 copies of which this copy is one of 350 copies sur Velin with an etching by Pablo Picasso especially made for this book: The Couple. The etching shown the cancellation bars on the right upper corner and is numbered in pencil. The soft cover book is guarded in a custom-made box. </p><p><b><u>Condition</u></b>: In very good condition with a minimal defect the spine marginally split between the preface and the left page. Ref: Cramer 61 Bloch 690. </p><p>MORE PICTURES ON REQUEST</p> "Les Pas Perdus" books
194722040Paris: Pierre Seghers 1947. First edition. One of 600 copies; there were also 10 special signed copies. A fine copy in a custom-made slipcase. 8vo illustrated by Max Ernst original wrappers. A fine copy in a custom-made slipcase. (Pierre Seghers) unknown books
1937D4508Paris: Éditions Jeanne Bucher 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Rebound in solid brown crushed morocco with gilt-lettered spine; 4to; with pictorial title and 56 plates by Man Ray illustrating poems by Eluard. Inscribed and signed by Man Ray though recipient's name has been removed and signed by Eluard on half-title. Original wraps laid-in. Spine evenly sunned; very light rubbing to spine tips and corners. One plate Breton portrait has pencil measurement indications perhaps left by the publisher otherwise are all nice and clean. <br/><br/> Éditions Jeanne Bucher hardcover books
1935004581Paris: Éditions G. L. M. 1935. 4to original photographic wrappers unbound folded sheets as issued. Small creases on front cover slight edge wear lightly toned as usual. Near fine. One of 1200 copies on thick vélin paper there were also 25 copies with an original print signed by Man Ray . With twelve images by the American photographer Man Ray born Emmanuel Radnitzky in collaboration with the poet Paul Éluard whose wife known as Nusch inspired the poems and posed for the photographs. Beautiful Surrealist photographic book with the images interwoven in and around the poems. Parr and Badger The Photobook a History Volume 1 page 105:". one of the iconic French photobooks of the 1930s.Though ethereal rather than earthy the pictures exude an elegant eroticism especially when printed in photogravure so luscious that one just wants to touch it." Blank Peter Four Works by Man Ray Stanford Libraries 2013: The photographic techniques include negative imagery solarization and double exposures." . Photographic Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by MAN RAY. 4to. Éditions G. L. M. Paperback books
19531689691953. LEGER Fernand. Liberté - J'ecris ton Nom. Text by Paul Eluard. Broadside 117 x 290 cm. 11 3/8 x 44 inches with brightly coloured pochoir design by Fernand Léger. Paris: Editions Seghers 1953. A fine copy of this extremely rare and beautiful broadside in excellent condition with the colours bright and fresh. Leger's strong continuous flow of colour across the broadside illuminates Eluard's elegaic and celebrated poem praising those who struggled in WWII to protect and defend the eternal liberty of France. This copy 'HC/1' of 12 hors-commerce copies from a total of 212 with a warm inscription from Pierre Seghers "A mon ami le plus cher Au poète qui est mon patron en édition et en poésie". Saphire Fernand Léger The Complete Graphic Work 300. unknown books
