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1936SURREALI002339The Surrealist Group in England London. September 1936. First edition. Quarto. 20 pages. Illustrations. Wrappers. The publication of this issue marked the International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries 11th June to 4th July 1936. The artists and writers included Paul Nash Andr� Breton Edward Burra Hugh Sykes Davies Julian Trevelyan Ruthven Todd Roland Penrose Henry Moore Man Ray Len Lye David Gascoyne and Paul Eluard. Contains a speech by Herbert Read as well as extracts from a lecture by Hugh Sykes Davies "Biology and Surrealism". Parallel texts in English and French. Staples rusted. A bit of creasing to spine. Very good indeed. The Surrealist Group in England, London. September, unknown
196117854AB1961. Volume 1 - 4 off 8. Paris La Terrain Vague 1961 - 1963. 23 : 15 cm. With many illustrations. Illustrated original wrappers. First edition of the first 4 issues of this rare journal a total of 8 issues was published. With literary contributions by Andre Breton Gérard Legrand Paul Nougé Jean-Claude Silbermann etc. and illustration by Dali Kubon Schroeder-Sonnenstern René Magritte Konrad Klapheck and others. llustrées.Revue littéraire et artistique parue sous la direction de André Breton. 8 numéros en 8 livraisons du n° 1 octobre 1961 au n° 8 novembre 1965.Dernière revue dirigée par André Breton elle prend fin à sa mort. Comité de rédaction Robert Benayoun Gérard Legrand José Pierre Jean Schuster. Textes et illustrations de Pierre Alechinsky Arrabal Vincent Bounoure Annie Le Brun Ghérasim Luca René Magritte. - unknown
196189467Paris: 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. <br /> <br /> 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
19242729Paris: 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We can find records of no other copies that have been on the market.<br /> <br /> References:<br /> <br /> 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
117780Paris Librairie Gallimard 1924-1929. . Periodical 12 issues in 11 vols.; 293 x 202 mm 11½ x 8 in; illustrated with halftone reproductions of photographs and artwork; wire-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers with black text nos. 1-5 are red and 6-12 are white occasional light handling light wear to spines occasional light marking and minor foxing oxidation to staples no.12 with more foxing and marking to lower side along spine a very good set in a custom chemise and slipcase; various paginations.<br /> A scarce complete set of the first and most famous surrealist journal whose first issue marks the official birth of the movement.<br /><br />Contributors include Louis Aragon André Breton René Char René Crevel Giorgio de Chirico Robert Desnos Paul Éluard Max Ernst Man Ray André Masson Joan Miró Francis Picabia Pablo Picasso and Yves Tanguy.<br /> Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1924-1929. unknown
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
195287538Paris: 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. <br /> <br /> 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
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
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
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
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
195617898AB1956. no. 1- 5. Octobre 1956 - Printemps 1959. Paris Pauvert 1956 - 1959. 195 : 195 cm. With many partly coloured plates and illustratins. Coloured illustrated original wrappers. The complete collection rare. The illustrated covers are by Duchamp Molinier Max Bellmer and Arp. - Without the two enclosures. - Spine of vol. 1 demages otherwise in good condition. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert Éditeur 1957-1959. Sm.8° Sq. - 5 Volumes - 156-167-95-54-64 pages - Colour & B/w reproductions. Complete Collection of Le Surréalisme même/Surrealism itself: is one of the major surrealist journals of the post-war period gathering the works and the remarks of Kostas Axelos Jean-Louis Bédouin Hans Bellmer André Breton Leonora Carrington Georges Darien Adrien Dax Marcel Duchamp Léo Ferré Abel Gance Julien Gracq Nelly Kaplan Joyce Mansour Mayoux ELT Mesens Nora Mitrani P.L. Palau Octavio Paz Benjamin Peret Fernando Pessoa André Pieyre of Mandiargues Man Ray Magloire Saint-Aude. First edition text in French language. Original wrappers. unknown
16274Paris FeÌvrier 1949. 1 f. 270 x 350 mm. Impression noire sur papier blanc. . Lettre ouverte sous forme de tract. L'exemplaire de Gaston Ferdière. . Les surréalistes se portent solidaires du mouvement « Citoyens du monde » et de son initiateur Garry Davis qui se rendit ceÌleÌ€bre en interrompant une seÌance de l'ONU au Palais de Chaillot en novembre 1948. Davis sera soutenu par le mouvement Front humain auquel Breton collabore depuis le printemps. Le poète participe aÌ€ plusieurs meetings mondialistes et le groupe tout entier adresse en février 1949 son soutien au jeune activiste à travers ce tract intituleÌ Â« Les surréalistes aÌ€ Garry Davis ». Notre exemplaire a été plié affranchi et adressé à Gaston Ferdière : l'adresse « Médecin chef de l'Asile de Rodez Aveyron » a été biffée et le courrier fait suivre à cette adresse : « Villa Ugarte aÌ€ Anglet B. Py. Basses-PyreÌneÌes ». Plusieurs eÌchanges de lettres au moment du meeting du 30 avril 1949 organiseÌ par Breton « Pour Gary Davis » attestent de contacts récurrents entre les deux hommes à cette époque. Paris, FeÌvrier 1949. 1 f. (270 x 350 mm). Impression noire sur papier blanc. unknown
195588267Paris: 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
1932338037Paris: Editions des Cahiers Libres 1932. First edition trade issue limited to 2000 numbered copies "sur velin omnia" text in French. 172pp. 12mo. Pictorial warppers. Archivally rebacked with new unprinted spine. Few tiny closed edge tears on front cover text evenly browned due to acidic paper else a very good copy. First edition trade issue limited to 2000 numbered copies "sur velin omnia" text in French. 172pp. 12mo. "Andre Breton is undeniably the outstanding representative of literary Surrealism in France. his books of critical discussion of the new theories-- as for instance. Les Vases communicants. have established his reputation as the most fully qualified exponent of the 'orthodox' Surrealist doctrine" Lemaitre. 'From Cubism to Surrealism in French Literature' p. 209. <br/><br/> Editions des Cahiers Libres unknown
198563685New York NY & Washington DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art & Abbeville Press 1985. 4to. 9.75 x 12.5 in. 243 1 pp. Colour frontisp. with photo illustrations some folding double-page throughout. Red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. NF/NF copy from the library of Los Angeles photographer Bill Bronstein b. 1949. First edition of this nicely illustrated analysis examining that photography lies at the core of surrealism and surrealist art examining the works of Hans Bellmer Boiffard Andre Breton Salvador Dali Marcel Duchamp Magritte Man Ray and others. Corcoran Gallery of Art & Abbeville Press, hardcover
198263686New York: Thames & Hudson 1982. 4to. 8.5 x 12.25 in. 255 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 346 photo illustrations throughout. Blue publisher’s cloth silver publisher’s logo front cover silver lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art photo of Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray minor edgewear still NF/NF copy from the library of Los Angeles photographer Bill Bronstein b. 1949. First U.S. edition of this richly illustrated work issued in conjunction with the 1981 Man Ray exhibit at the Pompidou Centre in Paris tracing his brilliant and influential oevre of work including portraits of Andre Breton Marcel Duchamp Gertrude Stein Virginia Woolf Antonin Artaud and much of his erotica. Thames & Hudson, hardcover
194887424Paris: 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
14136Paris novembre 1952 - juin 1953. 8 f. 430 x 280 mm recto impression en noir sur papier de couleurs. . Collection complète de la première série de cette revue dirigée par Jean Schuster imprimée sur divers papiers de couleur vert rouge crème blanc ocre violine et orangé. Textes de Breton Alleau Duprey Legrand Meret Oppenheim etc. . Avant qu'elle ne devienne une revue à part entière cette publication parut sous forme de feuillets recto revêtant plus l'aspect d'un journal. Elle était surtout destinée à jouer le rôle d'un « organe d'informations » au sein du groupe. Le titre dessiné rappelle le sens géométrique de médium : module d'architecture. Dirigé par Jean Schuster cette publication aura comme collaborateurs autour d'André Breton soit des surréalistes de fraîche date soit d'anciens compagnons de route comme Péret. Bel exemplaire de cette série extrêmement fragile et rarement complète. Paris, novembre 1952 - juin 1953. 8 f. (430 x 280 mm) recto, impression en noir sur papier de couleurs. unknown
19772092902137306941Bijutsu shubbansha 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Bijutsu shubbansha paperback
9788527308168-11-131946Perspectiva. New. Perspectiva unknown
2090502113716025Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
199127282<p>New York:: Thames & Hudson 1991. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The author provides a narrative history of the Surrealist movement of the 1920's in Paris and an analysis of the major Surrealist literature accented by Parisian photographs by Micahel Woods. Uncommon in the hardcover.</p> Thames & Hudson, hardcover
195587650Paris: 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
193488369Paris: Gallimard 1934. First French Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's cream colored card wraps titled in black and red to spine and front cover. Glassine dustjacket. 251pp.;1. Strong and tight a little soiling and marginal wear to the wraps and some staining and discoloration to the glassine jacket; internally clean ownership signatures of Monique Fong and Michel Tavriger to the front flyleaf dated 1949 and 1950 numerous collage additions to the text throughout. A very good copy with some fascinating artistic additions from the early surrealist movement.<br /> <br /> From the library of Nathaniel Tarn noted poet translator and anthropologist who during the period 1945-1950 was resident in Paris living and working under the name Michel Tavriger before adopting the name Nathaniel Tarn Tarn being the name of a French river. He was intimate with a large swath of Parisian artistic intelligentsia including Breton Octavio Paz photographer Serge Jacques and surrealist muse and intellectual powerhouse Monique Fong. In all probability he was most likely also a member of the surrealist ex-Vichy collaborationist "Cercle D'Etudes Metaphysiques" presided over by Raymond Abellio Bernard Noel Raymond De Becker and the like who numbered Cocteau and Jean Paulhan among their friends and contributors. Improvised collage is a factor of several branches of Fong's correspondence with friends like John Cage so it is most probably that the photographic collage elements inserted into the volume are the work of Fong. They are mostly black and white clippings from fashion or art magazines mostly occupied with nudes with several pages devoted simply to naked breasts they range in complexity from a simple uneven clipping to a rather more complex arrangement of vertically sliced elements arranged together covering a whole page to the rear of the volume. <br /> <br /> Fong stated in an interview before her death: "I'm a very rare person at this point. Not because I'm 95 but because I think there are only three people left in this world who have known both Breton and Octavio Paz. I was a member of the Surrealist group as was Nathaniel Tarn - under another name at the time - when we were 23 24 something like that. And all of our contemporaries died before the age of 70 which is really not old. There are very few survivors. If you knew Octavio Paz you did not necessarily live in France. People knew him in Mexico in India in the States. I'm pretty sure that the only people to know both Paz and Breton are at this point Jean-Clarence Lambert Nathaniel Tarn and me." https://caesuramag.org/posts/interview-with-monique-fong-surrealism. Gallimard unknown