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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
193687495London: 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
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
19509830Munich West Germany 1950. Four original ink drawings on paper various sizes roughly 14x10" up to 20x14". Two are dated "24 X 50" and perhaps from a series with roman numerals IV and V. Another is dated "20 XII 50" and the last simply dated 52. Some light foxing and a few faint stains and smudges corners occasionally bumped. Residue from old adhesive on back of one of the larger images the two smaller pieces matted. Generally very good. <br /> <br /> A cohesive group of four surrealist ink drawings by Rolf Engler active in West Germany in the early 1950s as both painter and experimental filmmaker associated with the Munich film industry. The drawings dated across the years 1950-1952 fall squarely within the period of Engler's work on the animated short Der Traum in Tusche A Dream in Ink 1952 an abstract animated film employing fluid ink imagery and experimental animation to explore the psychological devastation of war lingering guilt and unresolved trauma through dreamlike and nightmarish forms. The Harvard Film Archive described the work as "an animated fantasy film with nightmarish aspects including not overly allegorical references to the more recent past made by a genius of the FRG animation art." Der Traum in Tusche received a prestigious Bundesfilmpreis in 1953 and was later screened at the Locarno International Film Festival and other such events.<br /> <br /> Though we have not been able to view the film the present drawings exhibit the same visual language described: surreal figures distorted anatomy and shifting dreamlike forms rendered in bold ink line and fluid drawing techniques that formed the basis of Engler's experimental animated work. Two pieces bear Roman numeral notation suggesting a conceptual or sequential framework consistent with animation-adjacent production methods. We find it very likely these drawings were either used or heavily influential in Traum in Tusche or other projects of Engler's from this time period. <br /> <br /> <br /> We find documents and scripts by Engler held in the Landesrchive in Nordrhein-Westfalen though we have not been able to find examples of his artwork. A rare surviving group of works on paper from the formative years of postwar German experimental animation preserving the hand of an elusive but historically important mid-century artist and filmmaker. <br /> <br /> <br /> . unknown
19722092902137306827Shinchosha 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shinchosha paperback
199527755<p>Surrealism Breton Andre. Free Rein: Essays. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1995. First Printing of the First US Edition. ISBN: 0803212410. A Near Fine copy faint remainder stamp in a Fine dust jacket. Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by André Breton the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952 they include addresses manifestoes prefaces exhibition pamphlets and theoretical polemical and lyrical essays. Together they display the full span of Breton's preoccupations his abiding faith in the early principles of surrealism and the changing orientations in light of crucial events of those years of the surrealist movement within which he remained the leading force.Having broken decisively with Marxism in the mid-1930s Breton repeatedly addresses the horrors of the Stalinist regime which denounced him during the Moscow trials of 1936. He argues for the autonomy of art and poetry and condemns the subservience to "revolutionary" aims exemplified by socialist realism. Other articles reflect on aesthetic issues cinema music and education and provide detailed meditations on the literary artistic and philosophical topics for which he is best known. Free Rein will prove indispensable for students of Breton surrealism and modern French and European culture. </p> University of Nebraska Press, hardcover
193887425Paris: 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. <br /> <br /> 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
1952362568Paris: Pour l'Unite 1952. A French election poster from ca. 1951 with a connection to the Surrealists from three printed emblems reading "Bulletin NOIR Les Surealistes." Your cataloger's knowledge of French and French politics after the Second World War is not sufficient to offer an analysis of the poster. One suspects it mostly means the opposite of what it says or that it is a sort of word salad of election-style statements without meaning but draw your own conclusions:<br /> <br /> Pas de paix! Car la voie est ouverte à l'orgueil la cupidité la violence et le mensonge No peace! Because the way is open to pride greed violence and lies.<br /> <br /> Écartez le candidat qui préconise la lutte de classe. L'amour seul est constructif! Reject the candidate who advocates class struggle. Love alone is constructive!<br /> <br /> Published as a supplement to l'homme nouveau no. 97.<br /> <br /> 17-3/16 by 23-3/4 inches. Good only apparently removed from a wall with some loss to the margins repaired with infill paper. Linenbacked. Pour l'Unite unknown
1950333501Paris: Messager Boiteux de Paris 1950. First edition limited to 500 copies. Text in French. 8vo. Front cover has tiny closed tear at top edge small soil spot and faint crease at lower fore-corner else a very good copy. First edition limited to 500 copies. Text in French. 8vo. Surrealist and Dada writings inspired in part by Jazz and the music of Duke Ellington. OCLC locates seven holdings Library of Congress Emory Northwestern Illinois Missouri Hofstra and South Carolina State. T.C. #1. T.C. #1 <br/><br/> Messager Boiteux de Paris unknown
1947179710New York: 1947. An original brochure for this classic surrealist film. It features items from each of the film's collaborators: Max Ernst Fernand Leger Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Alexander Calder and the director Hans Richter. Richter began the project in 1944 after receiving a $6000 grant from Peggy Guggenheim. In an interview with the New York Times Richter stated "I started the picture as an adventure. But I knew one thing that was important. That is in cinematography we have scratched only the surface of the art and that there are thousands of other possibilities in film. I felt that both modern art and the movies are an expression of our time and that it would be interesting to combine the two." Octavo. Photographic portraits and reproductions from the film in the text throughout. Original green wrappers printed in black after a design by Max Ernst. A fine copy. Ezra Goodman "Musical Fantasy Filmed in Manhattan Loft" New York Times 11 April 1948. unknown
195016861AB1950. Heidelberg Lambert Schneider 1950. 30 : 235 cm. 90 pages with 36 illustrations 16 1 coloured plates. Original boards First edition. - Introduction into surreal literature and painting on psychoanalytiv basis.based on the method of the complex psychology of C.G. Jung as well as the psychoanalysis of Freud. Very well documented. Treats the most important movements of modern art 'the presurrealist poems' Jarry Rimbaud Lautremont Apollinaire 'the surrealist m ovement' 'the surrealist authors' all important authors 'the painting of surrealkism' most detailled about Max Ernst specially the collage's of Max Ernst. The first issue of 'Un Semaine de Bonté' 'Le Lion de Belfort' and the paintings which are especially typical for surrealism are analyst in-depth. hardcover
69-1683Iowa City: Dada/Surrealism The University of Iowa 1988. 8vo. circa 148 pp. Soft Cover Very Good B&W Plates. Iowa City: Dada/Surrealism, The University of Iowa, 1988 paperback
69-1699Iowa City: Dada/Surrealism The University of Iowa 1985. 8vo. circa 190 pp. Soft Cover Very Good B&W Plates. Iowa City: Dada/Surrealism, The University of Iowa, 1985 paperback
199325103New York:: Paragon House 1993. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The closest Andre Breton has ever came to writing an autobiography Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the Surrealists' ideological debate with communism and their opposition to Stalin. Paragon House, unknown