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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
195226014Paris: GLM 1952. First edition. Hugo Valentine. Wrappers 65 pages illustrated with full-page black-and-white plates reproducing art by Valentine Hugo. One of 135 on velin de renage second paper total edition of 1425 numbered copies. Fine copy. <br/><br/> GLM unknown books
194423297Genève: Éditions Des Trois Collines 1944. First edition. 70 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. One of 3000 numbered copies. Genève: Éditions Des Trois Collines unknown books
1946WRCLIT39065Gèneve & Paris: Éditions de Trois Collines 1946. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Illustrations by Gérard Vulliamy. First illustrated edition. One of one thousand numbered copies from a total edition of 1130. Wrappers a bit darkened at extremities but a very good copy.`. Éditions de Trois Collines unknown 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
1950236392Philadelphia: The Gray Falcon Press. London The Trianon Press 1950. Number 1426 of 1500 copies. Illustrated by Marc Chagall with a 2 colour hand-coloured frontispiece and numerous line drawings many full-page. 1 vols. 4to. Pictorial cream wrappers. Fine. Number 1426 of 1500 copies. Illustrated by Marc Chagall with a 2 colour hand-coloured frontispiece and numerous line drawings many full-page. 1 vols. 4to. With two colour frontispiece reproduced by hand in the workshop of Daniel Jacomet under the control of Marc Chagall and black and white illustrations in the text. The Gray Falcon Press. London The Trianon Press unknown books
1950124518London: Trianon Press 1950. Softcover. VG Ex-art lib. bookplate inside front cover. Marc Chagall. Plain off-white wraps; Off-white illus. dj. with transparent paper overlay; 92 pp.; Color frontispiece hand reproduced; Profusely illustrated in bw. Text appears in both French and English; English translation by Stephen Spender and Frances Cornford; A collection of poems by Paul Eluard Eugene Emile Paul Grindel one of the founders of the surrealist movement accompanied by illustrations by Marc Chagall; Number 50 of 750 copies reserved for the Trianon Press London numbers 751-1500 reserved for the Grey Falcon Press Philadelphia. Trianon Press paperback books
1950D14046Philadelphia / London: Grey Falcon Press / Trianon Press 1950. First Edition Limited Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated heavy cardstock wraps; glassine dust jacket; with a full-color frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text. First edition with complete text in French and English number 1317 from a limited edition 750 copies reserved for the Grey Falcon Press total limitation of 1500 copies. Some very light rubbing at spine tips and corners; pencilled inscription on limitation page; otherwise book is fine. Glassine just a bit tanned along the edges; tiny chips at spine tips and corners. An excellent copy -- nice and bright. Tasteful bookplates of Louis and Anne Marie Davidson. <br/><br/> Grey Falcon Press / Trianon Press paperback books
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
193025360Paris: Editions Surrealistes Chez Jose Corti. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Red wraps a little rubbing to joints and small starts at joint ends but a very nice looking copy of this important experimental work an attempt to simulate various mental disorder an effort to bring latent content to the fore by poetic means.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 124 pp . Editions Surrealistes Chez Jose Corti paperback books
198085040Paris:: Editions G. P. Near Fine. 1980. Hardcover. 2261007620 . Text is in French. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on title page else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Editions G. P., hardcover books
1949168826Paris: Louis Carre 1949. paperback. fine. Illustrated with 7 lithographic plates and 8 pen & ink drawings printed by Mourlot Freres 4to stiff printed wrappers original glassine beige board slipcase slightly soiled. Paris: Louis Carre 1948. Very Fine.<br/><br/> Number 94 of 800.<br/><br/> Louis Carre unknown books
137919Paris: Louis Carre. Softcover. G- Glassine dj has substantial wear with several inches missing in two places; book cover shows some age and soiling; pages are generally good with only slight tanning along edges; plates and text pages are clear though the ones adjacent to plates mirror some tanning. Yellow wraps glassine dust jacket 62 pp. 7 color lithographs 3 BW drawings. Text is in French. Subtitle on cover: Il construit un tableau un epi une rose un visage un sein nu. A tribute to the work of French cubist painter Jacques Villon born Gaston Duchamp 1875-1963. Begins with a poem by Paul Eluard and then relevant quotes from Leonard de Vinci Charles Baudelaire Eugene Fromentin Paul Cezanne Felix Bracquemond Jules Michelet Theophile Silvestre Honore de Balzac and Guillaume Apollinaire. The second part is an "Eloge de Jacques Villon" by Rene-Jean. The illustrations are interspersed throughout. #1066 of 1800 copies. Louis Carre paperback books
197428488Fairfax: Red Hill Press 1974. First edition. Paperback. Good. Tabloid newspaper format poetry journal edited by McBride and Vangelisti. Deep horizontal mailing fold with some attendant staining at fold. General light wear. A good copy. 32 pp on stiff paper. An unweildy format which has left most issues of this magazine in rather poor condition. Red Hill Press paperback 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
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
36620Paris: Editions de la Galerie Charpentier. 1945. Softcover. Limited edition #6 of 43 copies on rag paper with additional suite of plates from total edition of 1028. 11.5" x 8.5". 28 pp. Loose in printed wraps with 7 pochoir illustrations after gouaches by Hugo accompanying the facsimile of Eluard's manuscript poem duplicate suite of illustrations on individual plates in enclosed folder. Wraps show wear and chipping at edges and spine scattered foxing and staining; light scattered foxing to text and additional plates. Lacking original glassine jacket. A lovely edition of Eluard's poem celebrating France's liberation illustrated with Hugo's serene and colorful paintings . VeryGood. Paperback . Editions de la Galerie Charpentier. 1945 paperback books
196759444Paris: Tchou 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrations xi 249p. Original illustrated cloth. Clear acetate protector/jacket. 25cm. Front cover slightly warped. French text. <br/><br/> Tchou hardcover books
1951167367London: Lund Humphries 1951. Paperback. VG/G- some minor tanning some small tears throughout glassine jacket. Color-illustrated wraps with black lettering glassine dust jacket. Unpaginated. 77 plates some in color. Contains two essays: "Drawings of Picasso" by Roland Penrose and "Picasso: Good Master of Liberty" by Paul Eluard. "Issued in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts on the occasion of the exhibition 'Drawings and Watercolours Since 1853' held at Dover Street London W1 to commemorate the 70th birthday of Picasso 25 October 1951." Lund Humphries paperback 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
1987162060Paris: Change International / Equivalences 1987. Paperback. NF; clean tight copies with no marks and unbroken spines; likely unread. Glossy white card wraps with bw illustration and red/black lettering. 64 pp. with occasional bw images. Text in French. "Aleksic Branko's discovery brings from Belgrade an unknown Dali. The study of two manuscripts in French "Vive le Surrealisme!" and "la Reponse a l'enquete sur le desir" remained unpublished a novelty in the poetics of the written work of the artist. With the help of Paul Eluard they were sent to Marko Ristic for the Yugoslav magazine "Surrealisme aujourd'hui et ici" which published them in its Serbo-Croat translation in 1932." translated from the back cover - This 1987 reprint is the only other publication. Written in 3 chapters and with facsimiles of letters from Dali to Eluard. Scarce. Change International / Equivalences paperback books
195721875Paris: Pierre Seghers 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good. 8vo. Boards in paper covers. Toning/soiling to upper and lower edges with some scuffing and faint chipping to spine ends. Interior pages lightly toned towards edges but clean and unmarked. <br/><br/>Dust jacket design by Pablo Picasso. Includes twelve photographs by Lucien Clergue. With an opening dedicatory poem for Clergue by Jean Cocteau. "This book with its distinctive cover by Picasso was the first mainstream publication to show female pubic hair allowable only because Clergue did not show the faces of his models which gave rise to considerable controversy" Parr & Badger I 192f. Pierre Seghers hardcover books
195323738Paris: Au Ménestrel 1953. Paperback. Very good. One sheet folded to make two pages loose in a folder with an illustration by Andre Beaudin on the front. Paper tanned otherwise a very good copy. <br/><br/> Au Ménestrel paperback books
197318113NY: Grossman 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Spine just lightly sunned otherwise a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Grossman hardcover books
1944WRCLIT53005Paris: Aux Éditions de Minuit 1944. Printed wrappers. Frontis portrait by Picasso. First edition ordinary issue after 120 numbered copies. Crown of spine browned otherwise a very good copy. Aux Éditions de Minuit unknown books