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194266314Paris: Gallimard 1942. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1942 12 x 19 cm broché First collected edition of which there were no grand papier deluxe copies an advance service de presse copy. A nice copy despite a tiny tear to foot of upper cover. Rare autograph inscription signed by Robert Desnos to Pierre Berger: "" ces feuilles déjà bien vieilles."" Gallimard unknown
194246908Paris: Gallimard 1942. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1942 12 x 19 cm relié Collective first edition for which it was not drawn from great papers one of the review copies service. Binding in half red old morocco back with five nerves date tail plates of paper in the bowl covers and back preserved gilded head binding signed Goy & Vilaine. Rare autograph signed by Robert Desnos Hélène Weïand: ""With all the affection of Robert and Youki ."". Nice copy pleasantly established. Gallimard unknown
193053186Paris: Gallimard 1930. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1930 12 x 19 cm relié First edition an advance service de presse copy. Half mustard-colored morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine spine in six compartments brown paper endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine sunned preserved top edge gilt. Handsome autograph inscription signed by Robert Desnos to Colette Clément whose name he plays on: ""A Madame Colette Clément / Clément Marot non Jacques Clément ces mots barrés / non / hommage de l'auteur Robert Macaire."" Ex libris of recipient pasted in underneath justification. Gallimard hardcover
19362381Paris 1936. Editions Ars. In original paper. In fine condition. Editions Ars. In original paper. 23 plates. Edition of 415 numbered copies. One of the 100 on Arches containing the original litograph numbered and signed by Tihanyi. This print inserted in the work - self-portrait of the artist - is very often absent. unknown
194266748Paris: Gallimard 1942. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1942 12 x 19 cm broché Collective first edition for which it was not drawn from great papers one of the review copies service. Back insolated some traces. Rare and beautiful autograph signed by Robert Desnos Jean Galtier-Boissière: ""To Jean Galtier-Boissière this book is not worth a good glass of good wine but better than a kick in the ass. Desnos to his wife in terms less raw Desnos "" Gallimard unknown
193048215Paris: Nrf 1930. Fine. Nrf Paris 1930 12 x 19 cm broché First edition an advance service de presse copy Handsome autograph inscription from Robert Desnos to Janine and Raymond Queneau : "". devant qui j'ai repassé le conseil de revision who were my council of review"" enriched with a drawing showing a little elephant holding up Robert Desnos' name in its trunk One joint very slightly cracked at foot. Nrf unknown
19261689151926. MASSON André. C'est les bottes de 7 lieues Cette phrase "Je me vois". By Robert Desnos. 13 ff. illustrated with 4 etchings by Masson. Folio 423 x 328 mm. bound in publisher's wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Galerie Simon Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler 1926. A fine copy of the most beautiful of the books Kahnweiler published with Masson's illustrations and the first book by Robert Desnos with illustrations. One of 90 copies on Arches signed by Masson and Desnos from a total edition of 100. Saphire and Cramer ANDRE MASSON: The Illustrated Books. No. 3. hardcover
192988960Paris: Documents 1929. Fine. ""Documents . was made into a laboratory a genesis a crucible a rebellion a madness in short an avant-garde."" Jean Jamin Documents Paris 1929-1930 nº 1 à 7 avril 1929 - décembre 1929 ; nº 1 à 8 janvier 1930- octobre 1930 22 x 27.50 cm 15 volumes brochés sous coffret First edition 15 issues in 15 separate instalments abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Complete with the special issue Hommage à Picasso #3 1930 and the index for the year 1929 published as a separate 8-page stapled booklet. Some spines slightly faded not affecting the text occasional minor foxing along the margins of certain covers Presented in a custom slipcase with a flat spine in blue morocco title stamped in palladium and spine framed in palladium decorative blue paper boards sky-blue suede doublures; a handsome ensemble signed Boichot. Complete series of this legendary and non-conformist magazine founded by Georges Bataille which gave voice to fields of art and knowledge unrecognised by official culture or considered controversial: popular literature jazz cabaret advertising everyday life Annie Pirabot along with so-called primitive art and objects. Texts by Jean Babelon Jacques Baron Georges Bataille Alejo Carpentier Arnaud Dandieu Robert Desnos Carl Einstein Roger Gilbert-Lecomte Marcel Griaule Juan Gris Eugene Jolas Marcel Jouhandeau Michel Leiris Georges Limbour Marcel Mauss Léon Pierre-Quint Jacques Prévert Raymond Queneau Zdenko Reich Paul Rivet Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Georges-Henri Rivière André Schaeffner Roger Vitrac among others. Numerous full-page artistic contributions by Hans Arp Constantin Brancusi Giorgio De Chirico Alberto Giacometti Juan Gris Henri Laurens Fernand Léger André Masson Joan Miró Pablo Picasso Joseph Sima etc. The journals pioneering and interdisciplinary approach established it as one of the most important publications of the century: a dissident voice against the doctrinaire surrealism of André Breton Documents was conceived as a war machine against received ideas in Batailles own words and gathered an eclectic array of contributorsacademics ex-Dadaist and Surrealist painters and poets philosophers. It remains renowned for its striking juxtapositions: Rather than assemble documents from separate fields rather than uphold the usual subordination of image to text the journal gives photography drawing and image the privilege of being the most primal substance or the most original trace of human expression Georges Sebbag. Ethnography Documents is remembered above all for Batailles radical ethnographic stance focused on the material and detached from aesthetic criteria and the usual fascination with exoticism. These groundbreaking views foreshadow the Collège de sociologie that Bataille would later found with Michel Leiris Roger Caillois and Jules Moncrot. They are also reflected in the journal through numerous photographs of masks stones and other non-Western artistic creations Siberian Chinese. set alongside modern artworks including drawings by Klee and paintings by Picasso. Bataille also collaborated with the notorious Hans Bellmer who would go on to illustrate the famous second edition of Histoire de lil to create a terrifying portrait of the Hindu goddess of destruction Kali. photography The journal places particular emphasis on photography. Among its most celebrated contributions are the close-up photographs of toes by Jacques-André Boiffard accompanying Batailles essay on the foot in issue no. 6: The point of this article lies in an insistence on directly and explicitly challenging what seduces without relying on poetic contrivances which ultimately amount to little more than diversion Bataille concludes. His fascination with the abnormal and the destructive is also evident in Boiffards fetishistic and sadomasochistic photograph of a woman wearing a Documents hardcover