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19432562Paris: Robert J. Godet “pour mes amis†1943. First edition. 35 4 pp. Unbound signatures laid into printed wrapper as issued. Some toning to extremities; first plate lacks tissue guard.<br /> <br /> One of one hundred numbered copies reserved for Robert J. Godet of a total edition of 170 copies. One of Desnos’ last collections containing the stirring “Demain.†Gaston-Louis Roux somewhat neglected today was one of Kahnweiler’s artists and contributed the cover to the second issue of Minotaure. Robert J. Godet, “pour mes amis†unknown
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
1929TransitionStories_EJ_1929<p>New York: Walter V. McKee 1929. First edition first printing. Octavo 19 x 13cm. xii 356pp. Bound in black cloth and decorative boards with a design by Albert Schiller spine stamped in red issued with a dust-jacket designed by Irving Politzer. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good unclipped dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear and soiling to extremities; shallow chipping to head and tail of wrapper.</p><p>This historically significant anthology gathers experimental works from the first thirteen issues of "transition" magazine one of the most influential little magazines of the 1920s. Founded by Eugene Jolas Maria Jolas and Elliott Paul "transition" advocated the "metamorphosis of reality" through artistic expression and provided a platform for a new internationalist modernism. Included here as "A Muster from 'Work in Progress'" are seven excerpts of drafts for James Joyce's yet unnamed "Finnegans Wake" textual excerpts which were revised for this printing and again for publication in 1939.</p> Walter V. McKee hardcover
19363722<p>Paris: Editions Ars 1936 Quarto 28.5 x23 cm. wrappers 8 iv 23 plates total edition of 415 plus the additional original lithograph Self-Portrait 1923 as called for issued in the first 115 copies. Lajos Tihanyi 1885-1938 one of the most important Hungarian modernist painters was a deaf mute from a childhood illness. Despite his handicap and largely self-taught he was recognized quite early on as a formidable talent and played an important role in the modernist Nagybánya Nyolcák and avant-garde Aktivizmus movements up to his departure from Hungary in 1919. Living in Paris from 1922 he developed into nonobjective abstraction and was part of the Abstraction-creation group. At the same time he continued executing expressionist portraits of a wide international circle of friends and associates. These included Gyula Halász Brassai Ivan Goll George Antheil Hungarian émigrés and surrealist poet Robert Desnos who authored this book. Desnos gave the valedictory at Tihanyi's funeral accompanied by Count Mihály Károlyi. This copy is warmly inscribed by Tihanyi to the Swiss painter Hans Schiess and the self portrait lithograph is also included with his personal dedication. This copy very good; litho has light foxing.</p> : Editions Ars paperback
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
1994021440Atlas 1994 168 pp. 4 surrealist novels. Covers have some light shelf wear. Atlas paperback
1974OLN397<p>Penfield NY: The Strange Faeces Press 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket as issued. Near Fine. 8vo 120pp stapled wrappers. 1 of 500 copies. This issue of the great Strange Faeces is devoted to translations of French poetry. Uncirculated copy light toning.</p> Penfield, NY: The Strange Faeces Press paperback
193039432Paris: Editions Charles Moreau 1930. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Folio 17 2/8 x 12 6/8". 4pp Title and list of contents 36 loose leaves Plates as issued. Original quarter black cloth over illustrated paper covered boards. String ties. Illustrated title. This remarkable work is a pictorial survey of French Art Deco locksmith and ironworks in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The 36 striking photographic plates reproduced in heliotype depict numerous realized projects and projects of hand railings ironwork stairs gates doors and doorways executed by some of the most famous architects and craftsmen of the period such as: Raymond Subes Lucien Bechmann Henri Pacon Léon Gaudibert P. Jumelle R. Genuys Louis-Hippolyte Boileau Germain Debré Jean Dunand J. Rey Joseph Marrast Jean Walter Jean Prouvé Le Corbusier P. Jeanneret Dominique Chollet et Mathon Nics Frères Robert Mallet-Stevens Walter Gropius Henri Martin Michel Roux-Spitz G. Perzel Szetlak Pierre Patout Joseph Bassompierre Sirvin et de Rutte Joseph-Charles de Montarnal Bezault Frères Freynet et Deperthes P. et G. Bloch L. Praeger Molinie et Nicod Gilbert Poillerat Albert Laprade G. Vaudoyer Schenck E. Arrighi Henri Palausi Auguste Bluysen J. Lacoste Edgar Brandt Louis Plousey and Urbain Cassan. Moderate rubbing and age-toning along edges of portfolio. Head of spine slightly frayed. Lower margin of front cover and lower fore-edge of back board slightly water-stained. Water-staining to lower margin of text pages not affecting text slightly affecting the tip of the lower margin of plates throughout not affecting images. Text and captions in French. Portfolio in overall good- interior in good plates in good to very good images in very good condition. Editions Charles Moreau hardcover
1947H13649Paris: Les 13 Epis 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine. Of a total of 330 copies this is no. 277 on Lafuma. 4to daubed pink chemise boards housing loose gatherings of Desnos poetry and 4 eau-fortes by Coutaud. Contents Fine chemise nearly fine hint of rubbing daubed pink slipcase very good with light rubbing some discoloration and mustiness. A lovely production of Desnos' work a surrealist who was a great poet and novelist and who died in 1945 in the Theresienstadt camp. Les 13 Epis hardcover
1947H6310Paris: Les 13 Epis 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine. Of a total of 330 copies this is no. 114 on Lafuma. 4to daubed pink chemise boards housing loose gatherings of Desnos poetry and 4 eau-fortes by Coutaud. Contents Fine chemise nearly fine hint of rubbing daubed pink slipcase very good with light rubbing and wear. A lovely production of Desnos' work a surrealist who was a great poet and novelist and who died in 1945 in the Theresienstadt camp. Les 13 Epis hardcover
191928447Paris: Maison du livre 1919. Fine. Maison du livre Paris 1919 12.50 x 19 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Ecstatic autograph inscription signed full-page by the author to Robert Desnos : ""Merde / Robert Desnos"". Spine faded repaired first cover lined with small marginal repairs lower cover missing. A precious relic. Maison du livre unknown
1984258724Presses du monteil 1984. Etat Correct bords frottés couverture jaunie livres percé de 4 trous à chaque coins intérieur frais. in8. 1984. Broché. traduction de Erna Liebscher Presses du monteil unknown
19992-2070754278GALLIMARD 1999. Mass Market Paperback. New. 1394 pages. French language. 8.11x5.51x1.65 inches. GALLIMARD paperback
1973521148New York City: The Ant's Forefoot 1973. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Translated by Lewis Warsh. Quarto. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Foxing to the wrappers and first page very good copy. Limited to 300 copies. Poetry by French surrealist Robert Desnos who was active in the French resistance during World War II before eventually being imprisoned in Auschwitz Buchenwald and Terezin in Czechoslovakia where he died of typhoid. Issued as The Ant's Forefoot 10. Surprisingly uncommon in the trade. The Ant's Forefoot unknown
19722110502150201739Chiku ma shobo 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Chiku ma shobo paperback
2000mon0004106545Atlas Press 3/31/2013 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 0.8661 8.1890 7.7165. Atlas Press hardcover
1943s00014377Paris: Gallimard 1943. First printing. Paperback. Good. Inscribed on the front flyleaf by Desnos to the well-known French novelist and screen-writer Pierre Bost. Inscribed books by this central figure in the Surrealist group are rare. Desnos' unusual "druggy" novel revolving around a beautiful opium-addicted woman modeled upon the tragic singer Yvonne George. First edition 1943. Softcover 206 pp. clean unmarked text Good copy general age-toning to the pages some soiling to the covers wear to the covers including creasing tearing and loss at the bottom third of the spine. We have housed the book in protective mylar. Gallimard paperback
1975319861975. Paris Editions Jean-Michel Place 1980. Un fort vol. au format in-4 297 x 208 mm non paginÂŽ. Reliure d'ÂŽdition de pleine percaline satinÂŽe cerise sous jaquette illustrÂŽe. Reprint de cette cÂŽlÂbre revue ; agrÂŽmentÂŽe de nombreuses illustrations. ''La RÂŽvolution surrÂŽaliste sera pendant cinq annÂŽe le creuset dans lequel vont se fondre les grands thÂmes de ce mouvement trÂs connu et toujours trÂs mystÂŽrieux le surrÂŽalisme. C'est l'incitation ˆ la vie dangereuse la sagesse de l'Orient l'engagement poÂŽtique la libÂŽration sexuelle l'amour la femme''. Dos et marge gauche du premier plat insolÂŽs. Infime altÂŽration affectant la coiffe supÂŽrieure de la jaquette. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1945225011945. Rodez Collection Humour 1945. Un vol. au format pt in-4 242 x 192 mm de 91 pp. brochÂŽ sous couverture ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs. Edition originale pour laquelle il n'est pas fait mention d'un tirage en grands papiers. ''MÂŽconnue rarement jouÂŽe "La Place de l'ƒtoile" fut ÂŽcrite ˆ la fin des annÂŽes 1920 par Robert Desnos l'un de nos plus grands poÂtes surrÂŽalistes. Ce chef-d'Ãuvre de dr™lerie insolite se compose de neuf scÂnes o se croisent d'improbables personnages ˆ la fois proches et fuyants en une balade ÂŽtoilÂŽe aux multiples branches.'' Plats prÂŽsentant de discrÂtes rousseurs ainsi qu'un ÂŽclat lÂŽgÂrement altÂŽrÂŽ. Papier lÂŽgÂrement jauni. TrÂs rares rousseurs dans le texte. Nonobstant belle condition. b42961 unknown
1945162609Rodez: Humour 1945. Softcover. gr.8°. französische Broschur Posthum am 30. November 1945 erschienene Gedichtfolge die Desnos bereits 1927 geschrieben und 1944 gründlich überarbeitet hatte. Desnos starb am 8. Juni 1945 kurz nach der Befreiung aus dem Lager Theresienstadt wo er an Thypus erkrankt war. Dieses Antipoème ist der einzige erschienene Band der collection "Humour" für die "nächsten Monate" geplant waren noch Texte von Antonin Arthaud Gaston Ferdière und Guy Mercier. Frankreich; 20. Jahrhundert; Surrealismus Collection "Humour" vol I Humour, paperback
194587831Rodez: Privately Published 1945. Later Edition Revised softcover. Octavo 24cm; gray paper wrappers with paper title label on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; glassine wrapper; 89-911pp. Humour Collection published under the direction of Gaston Ferdiere. Text in French. Numerical series stamped in red on rear wrapper. Modest shelf-soil to wrappers with light surface wear; Very Good. Glassine dustwrapper lightly tanned with tiny tears and creases to extremities; Very Good. First published in 1928 and revised in 1944 the French poet shares this drama. 87831. Privately Published unknown
190177326Paris : Octave Doin 1901. 180x130mm. reliure percaline de lÕditeur. Tranches marbres. du possesseur sur la haut de la page de garde suprieure. Dos insol. Bel exemplaire. 738 Octave Doin unknown
1989BN319684Haux 1989. 1989. Hardcover. Gegenrichtung: Gedichte <br/><br/>Gegenrichtung: Gedichte Robert Desnos Haux hardcover
194517176Paris: Sequana 1945. Fine. Sequana Paris 1945 12.50 x 16 cm broché First edition. A small lack at head of spine which also has a slight tear at foot three tiny corner lacks to boards. Iconography. Sequana hardcover
194287440Paris: Gallimard 1942. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1942 12 x 19 cm broché The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Spine sunned boards lightly soiled. Gallimard hardcover
