Louis ARAGON

Pléiade Library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full brown grained sheepskin binding, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper and slipcase.

Rare double first edition of this masterpiece of the literature of the Resistance, probably published simultaneously in the northern and southern zone by the two most important underground publishers of the Resistance.

The six-page fold-out cupboard produced in the Parisian cellar of Editions de Minuit is echoed by the equally modest brochure printed on the active resistant presses of Saint-Flour by René Amarger under a yellow cover “falling from wallpaper”. It...

First edition, one of 17 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Beautiful copy.

Les éditions de minuit | Paris 1943 | 13.5 x 19 cm | original wrappers

The Musée Grévin is one of the first literary references, in 1943, to the camp at Auschwitz: «On the outskirts of Poland, there is a Gehenna whose name whistles and blows an atrocious song. Auschwitz! Auschwitz! O bloody syllables! Here we live, here we die a slow death. We call this slow execution. Part of our hearts slowly perishes there.» Louis Aragon opted for the pseudonym François La Colère, François after a humiliated France and Colère (Anger) against the Vichy regime.

Rare first edition in volume form of this masterpiece of Resistance literature, one of the 100 copies on coated...

first edition on current paper.
Sun back.
Autograph dedication signed by Louis Aragon: "To Paul Vienney, his faithful friend".

[éditions de la revue Variété] | [Brussels 1929] | 21.5 x 20 cm | original wrappers

First edition, one of 160 numbered copies on Montval, only print after 7 Japan and 48 Holland.
he work is presented in a half grey morocco chemise, slipcase lined in grey morocco, all signed by Thomas Boichot,
Famous erotic book illustrated with 4 photolithographs of a pornographic nature by Man Ray putting on a performance with Kiki, the inescapable Montparnasse muse of the Roaring Twenties.
Each of these photographs is accompanied with erotic poems by Benjamin Péret for the first semester and Louis Aragon for the second.
Very rare copy of this scandalous...

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Binding in half hazelnut hazelnuts, back slightly cleared with four nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, ex-ibris glued on a contreplat.
Illustrated book of photographic reproductions of works by Gustave Courbet.
Signed autograph of Louis Aragon Jacques Rech.

First edition, one of 535 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Spine and boards lightly sunned as usual, bookplate pasted with glue offset on the facing page where it was placed, handsome interior condition.
A full-margined copy.

[Dada Poster] Soirée Dada à la Galerie Montaigne le vendredi 10 juin 1921 à la Galerie Montaigne [Dada Evening on Friday
10 June 1921 at the Galerie Montaigne]First edition of this rare leaflet announcing the Dada evening on Friday 10 June 1921 at the Galerie Montaigne.
Two small, minor signs of folding.
Precious invitation to this evening organised as part of the “Salon Dada,” installed at the Galerie Montaigne during the month of June 1921. Tristan Tzara, for the first time, performed his play Le Cœur à gaz and most of the movement's protagonists joined in...

Dada poster-program – Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais des Champs-élysées, 5 February [1920]

Paris 1920 | 18.8 x 26.6 cm | single sheet

First edition of this poster-program announcing the Salon des Indépendants at the Grand Palais on Thursday 5 February 1920, second Dada demonstration, with interventions by Picabia, Breton, Dermée, Éluard, Aragon and Tzara.
Some signs of minor folding, two small brown stains in the upper and lower margins of the document.
We have not been able to find any copies in libraries.
Extremely rare.

First edition on current paper.
Two small tears without gravity in the head and foot of the back.
Autograph signed by Louis Aragon to Guy Doucet on the fake title page.
Our copy is enriched by the handwritten signatures of the actor and tragedian Gérard Philippe, the cyclist Antoine Magne and a third communist sympathizer whose name we could not identify.

André BRETON & Philippe SOUPAULT
& Guillaume APOLLINAIRE & Blaise CENDRARS & Tristan TZARA & Raymond RADIGUET
& Louis ARAGON & Max JACOB
Littérature N° 9
Littérature | Paris Novembre 1919 | 14 x 23 cm | stapled
First edition of the ninth issue of this magazine founded by Louis Aragon, André Breton and Philippe Soupault.
Issue starting to unstitch, a tear at the foot of the spine.
Contributions from André Breton & Philippe Soupault Les Champs magnétiques (suite), Guillaume Apollinaire Quelconqueries, Louis Aragon Sommeil de plomb, Max Jacob Poèmes en prose, Blaise Cendrars M. 43.57. Z, détenu (mémoires)...

Leaflet: "Ne visitez pas l'Exposition Coloniale” “Do not visit the Colonial Exhibition”

Rare first edition of this famous leaflet, published by the group of “Surréalistes,” directed against colonialism and, more precisely, the chief of police Jean Chiappe, guilty of having recently deported a Communist Indochinese student.
Rare and beautiful copy despite signs of frequent folding inherent in this type of document.
Text by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Benjamin Péret, Georges Sadoul, Pierre Unik, André Thirion, René Crevel, Louis Aragon, René Char, Maxime Alexandre, Yves Tanguy and Georges Malkine.
This leaflet is an opportunity for the “Surréalistes” to not only...

Dada Poster – Dada Festival at the Salle Gaveau, Wednesday 26 May 1920

Paris Wednesday 26 May 1920 | 27.2 x 37 cm | single sheet

First edition of this program leaflet announcing the festival of the Paris dadaist group at the Salle Gaveau on Wednesday 26 May 1920. The first draft of this poster was designed by Tzara and Picabia.
Superimposed mechanical illustration by Picabia.
Catalogue of Sans pareil publications on the verso.
Contributions by Breton, Draule (anagram of Éluard), Picabia, Tzara, etc.
Very beautiful copy of great quality and having preserved its fragile green color.

Le Con d'Irène [Irene's cunt]

René Bonnel | Paris 1928 | 19.5 x 24.5 cm | loose leaves with chemise and slipcase

First edition published anonymously and secretly, one of 140 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, only print after 1 China and 9 Japan.
Signs of wear and small tears on the slipcase.
Blank spine lightly faded, endpapers partially discolored, otherwise beautiful copy.
Rare preserved publisher's chemise and slipcase, signs of wear and small tears on the slipcase. All presented in a half red morocco box, pink paper boards, pink paper doublures, box signed by Thomas Boichot.
Illustrated with 5 original...

Dada Leaflet – Soirée Dada à la Galerie Montaigne le vendredi 10 juin 1921 First edition of this rare flyer invitation to a “Dada Soirée” held at the Galerie Montaigne on June 10, 1921.
Two small traces of folding and a small tear to head.
Rare invitation to an evening organized by Tristan Tzara above the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées as part of the “Salon Dada” of June 1921. Tzara performed his provocative play Le Cœur à Gaz and presented dadaist visual art works along with all the major dada protagonists, except for Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia who had already broken away from the movement.
With...

First edition of this leaflet announcing the first public event organized for the "Season Dada 1921".
Some very slight discolorations without serious creases.
Very nice copy of a great freshness and having preserved its fragile green color.
Precious flyer dada of the visit of the church St-Julien-le-Pauvre, realized within the framework of a series of excursions and visits through Paris, in places voluntarily derisory. Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes served as a guide, improvising readings in front of a column or sculpture of articles taken at random from a big Larousse dictionary. The visit, which took place in the rain, counted only about fifty participants and was considered a...

First edition of which it was not drawn of great papers.
Back slightly insolated as generally.
Signed autograph of Louis Aragon to Jean Palot.

Collective first edition for which it was not drawn great papers, one of the review copies service.
A clear circular shadow at the top of the first leaflets.
Preface by Louis Aragon, complete copy of his insertion prayer and erratum.
Signed autograph of Louis Aragon to Daniel Pichon.

First edition on current paper.
Plates and guards marginally and slightly shaded, complete copy of his errata sheet.
Handwritten signature of Louis Aragon on the fake title page.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only leading copies.
Back very slightly insolated without gravity.
Autograph dedication signed by Jacques Boulenger to Henriette de Martel: "... this crime - it's not the book I'm talking about! - ..."

New edition.
Back slightly insolated.
Autograph dedication of Louis Aragon to Andrée Carle.

First edition, one of 1050 numbered copies on châtaignier, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies with 13 Hollande paper and 88 pur fil paper.
Publisher's binding over flexible paper boards with an original design by Paul Bonet.
Spine slightly browned as usual, otherwise nice copy.

A four page handwritten poem of 102 lines, written in black ink on two leaves of school paper, Seyes ruling, written recto-verso. In the upper margin of the first page there is an inscription in red pencil, probably written later: “19 Lyons-la-Forêt.” Part of this note is erased, but we can assume that it would read: “19. In Lyons-la-Forêt, it goes very very badly.”
Exceptional original manuscript complete of this important and rare poem, composed in the automatic writing style of the pre-Surrealist years of Aragon's youth.
This superb and abundant poem, which was, for...

First edition on current paper.
Signed autograph of Louis Aragon to Jacques Doucet.

First edition on current paper.
Back slightly cracked without gravity and having a small angular lack in the foot.
Signed autograph of Louis Aragon to Jean-Edouard Bloch.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Spots on the spine.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Colette : « A Colette indignement. Aragon."