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194625542New York: View 1946. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . The January 1946 issue of this magazine of surrealist art and writings. Edited by Ford with assistance by Parker Tyler Paul Bowles Philip Lamantia Harold Rosenberg Aaron Copland and Marcel Duchamp among others. This issue notable for the inclusion of The Circular Ruins a story by Borges translated by Paul Bowles. Cover art by John Tunnard. A very good plus copy in tall side-stapled wrappers. View paperback books
19452230Brussels: Galerie des Éditions La Boétie 1945. <br /><br />Small Octavo 7 9/16 x 5 5/8 inches; 192 x 143 mm 16 pages of text and 8 pages of plates in stapled illustrated wrappers. <br /><br />Scarce catalogue of a Surrealism exhibition that took place from December 15 1945 to January 15 1946 at Galerie des Éditions La Boétie in Brussels. The catalogue features eight pages of black-and-white photos of some of the works in the exhibition along with texts by André Breton Paul Nougé Marcel Mariën Tristan Tzara Paul Éluard René Magritte and Louis Scutenaire. <br /><br />The catalogue lists 167 works in the exhibition by such artists as Hans Arp Giorgio de Chirico Max Ernst Paul Klee René Magritte Marcel Mariën Paul Nougé and Raoul Ubac. The cover illustration is Magritte's "Le Viol" 1945. <br /><br />OCLC lists nine institutional holdings: Hofstra MOMA the Getty Art Institute of Chicago Northwestern Johns Hopkins Princeton Philadelphia and the Menil Collection. Listed under two OCLC accession numbers: 9727431 and 1138935734. Scarce in commerce. <br /><br />CONDITION: Wrappers soiled with heavy edge wear and a few nicks. Internally clean and unmarked some toning to the newsprint pages rusting to staples and a small tear in the last page not affecting any text. A Good copy. Galerie des Éditions La Boétie paperback books
1934WRCLIT28417Paris: Editions Jeanne Bucher 1934. 1663pp. plus plates. Typographically decorated pale green wrappers. Neat small ink name wrappers sunned at extremities spine a bit used otherwise a very good copy. First edition trade issue one of two thousand copies on Bouffant; there were twenty-eight deluxe copies on Montval. With a substantial introduction by Georges Hugnet and contributions by a wide range of writers and visual artists. Editions Jeanne Bucher unknown books
7258Several black & white illus. Folded sheet on coated paper 210 x 150 mm. folded. Paris: 1930. The rare first catalogue devoted to Surrealism issued by the Librairie José Corti one of the principal distributors of Surrealist works in Paris. Located on the Rue de Clichy the bookstore would later serve as the occasional headquarters of the collective imprint Editions Surréalistes. This catalogue offers for sale the early books of Breton Aragon Eluard Char Tzara Péret Picabia Desnos Ernst etc. With illustrations by Magritte and Ernst. Good copy of one of the earliest catalogues of Surrealist publications. The middle segment has been expertly re-joined to the upper portion. unknown books
197715128Paris: Editions Carmen Martinez 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 187 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Short crease at rear free endpaper. Minor foxing to edges. A clean very good copy in bound decorated wrappers with wide French flaps. INSCRIBED by the artist "Pour Harold Rosenberg / avec bon souvenirs / Pol Bury" A nice association. Inscribed to noted art critic Harold Rosenberg. <br/><br/> Editions Carmen Martinez paperback books
194123905New York: View 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Early issue in glossy newspaper format of this magazine devoted to surrealism. Contributions by Calas Norman McCaig Saburoh Kuroda Kurt Seligmann Thomas Merton and more. Fine seemingly unread copy. A gorgeous unfolded copy of a scarce early issue. View paperback books
194827263Paris: 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. <br/><br/> Éditions surréalistes unknown books
1946914Paris: Aux Editions de Quatre Vents 1946. Trade edition. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 dark brown morocco and marbled paste-paper boardsgilt fillets four raised bands on spine title gilt top edge gilt marbled paste-paper doublures original wrapping and spine bound in fine. Special issue of this literary journal entirely devoted to surrealist writing including short pieces by Edward Lear Andre Breton Julien Gracq Maurice Blanchard Andre Manon and others. Aux Editions de Quatre Vents unknown books
194713119New York: Films International of New York 1947. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. The classic illustrated film brochure for Hans Richter's surrealist experimental film. Cover collage by Max Ernst. With a stellar cast of contributors including Marcel Duchamp Fernand Leger Man Ray and many other surrealist luminaries. A clean near fine example. This is one of the variant yellow copies vs the more typical green. <br/><br/> Films International of New York paperback books
1938WRCLIT76549Paris: Galerie Beaux-Arts 1938. Large octavo. Pictorial stiff wrappers after a design by Tanguy. Very heavily illustrated with drawings photographs facsimiles etc. Pale green wrappers somewhat tanned at edges neatly recased with shallow loss at crown and toe of spine usual light foxing otherwise a very good copy in lightly chipped and tanned glassine wrapper. This copy is significantly better than the norm for this book. First edition. A multi-disciplinary exercise in self-explanation drawing on primary texts for the definition of terms and tendencies and reproductions of artworks by those who at various times found or placed themselves under the umbrella of SURREALISME. The work was compiled to accompany the Exposition International du Surréalisme organized by Breton and Eluard with the assistance of Duchamp Ernst Dali and others and the uncommon 8pp. catalogue of the exhibition inevitably a bit tanned is laid in. Galerie Beaux-Arts unknown books
194712705Paris: Editions de la Revue Fontaine 1947. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Small quarto. Illustrations by Frederick Kiesler. Attractive artist book with text in French by Breton. A lovely fine copy in illustrated wrappers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A superior copy. <br/><br/> Editions de la Revue Fontaine paperback books
194726385New York: H. Bittner and Company 1947. First edition. Cloth. Good. Clothbound quarto. Artist monograph on this surrealist painter focused on his drawings. Edited and with text by Lincoln Kirstein. Includes 48 black and white plates. Covers soiled a bit about the edges of the cloth covers and with a bit of fraying at spine tips. Lacking the uncommon dustwrapper as often seen. This copy has been SIGNED by Tchelitchew on the front endpaper. A most uncommon signature. Also laid in to this copy are several pieces of Tchelitchew-related ephemera from other exhibitions of his works over the years. H. Bittner and Company unknown books
193626976Paris: Aux Editions Jeanne Bucher 1936. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good . Single sheet of 6 1/2" x 10" tall paper. The rare sales prospectus / publication announcement sheet for Georges Hugnet's masterpiece of photocollage entitled La Septieme Face Du De Poemes-Decoupages facsimile en couleurs dans le format in-dix double-raisin. Sous Couverture de Marcel Duchamp. This book was issued in two editions: a "super-limited" edition of 20 copies sur japon comportant un inedit et une "couverture-cigarette" par Marcel Duchamp. This edition was offered at the vast sum of 300 fr back in 1936. The so-called "regular" edition of 200 copies sur velin went for the modest price of 35 fr. Condition of sheet is very good. A handsome frame-able piece of surrealist ephemera. Aux Editions Jeanne Bucher unknown books
7223Cover illustration by Max Ernst & 12 photographic closeups of authors printed on both sides of six sheets of coated paper tipped-in. 15 pp. 8vo 220 x 130 mm. orig. printed paper wrappers. Paris: J. Corti 1931. A scarce bookseller's catalogue issued by one of the principal distributors of Surrealist works in Paris. The famous chart of authors prescribed and invalidated by the Surrealists "Lisez / Ne Lisez" appears for the first time in print on the lower wrapper of this catalogue. The Librairie José Corti on the Rue de Clichy served as the occasional headquarters of the collective imprint Editions Surréalistes. Ernst's steel-engraved collage on the cover was specially made for the bookstore. The catalogue offers for sale the works of Maxime Alexandre Louis Aragon André Breton René Char René Crevel Salvador Dali Paul Eluard Max Ernst Benjamin Péret Tristan Tzara Pierre Unik and Luis Bunuel. Most of the portraits tipped-in are reproductions of photographs taken by Man Ray. Each author is given one page with their works listed with prices and noted when "épuisé." Below the listings are excerpts of contemporary reviews and commentary on the authors and the Surrealist movement as a whole. Breton and Eluard's "L'Immaculée Conception" is offered on page 9 followed by reviews of the work. Fine and fresh copy. ❧ Georges Sebbag Les Editions Surréalistes: 1926-1968 1993 p. 199-200 in trans.-"Methodical a bibliography has a cognitive aim. Descriptive a bookseller or auction house catalogue has a commercial end. The Corti catalogue of 1931.transcends these two goals. On the one hand it participates in the campaign to launch Editions Surréalistes and led to the unification of the group.A surrealist object theoretical and visible the catalogue is a model of Edition Surréaliste publishing." In the bibliography cited above "Annexe II" describes the evolution of the "Lisez / Ne Lisez Pas" chart. The cover of the present catalogue is reproduced on the cover of Sebbag's work. unknown books
1985010190Barcelona: Editorial Mediterrania 1985. First Edition. Silk. Fine/No. First edition. One of five hundred copies. Elaborately designed plexi-slipcase containing a volume bound in blue moire silk all edges gilt. Measures 12 x 12. Also contains a 12 x 12 color lithograph of Dali's 1972 self portrait. Image of the face of Marilyn Monroe with the head of Mao Tse Tung. Lithograph housed in a separate pocket within a matching moire silk portfolio. Box also contains three record albums each housed in gold paper slip glassine paper protecting the records. Libretto by Manuel Vasquez Montalban. Music by Igor Wakhevitch. Rare complete set in exemplary condition. Records not played but appear to be unmarked. Plexi-case shows some inevitable wear. Small crack at one corner repaired. <br/><br/> Editorial Mediterrania unknown books
19362345Paris: 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.<br /> <br /> An extraordinary association copy signed and inscribed twice by Hugnet:<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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
