Paul ÉLUARD

first edition on current paper, false mention of third edition.
Paper yellowed as usual, a little missing at the bottom of the back.
Handwritten signature of Paul Eluard, on the first guard.
Provenance: from the poet Charles Dobzynski's library.
This friendship was fundamental for Dobzinski, since it was Paul Eluard who discovered the 20-year-old young poet and introduced him to "Lettres Françaises" in 1949 where he met Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet in particular, who would preface several of his works.

Facile First edition, one of 1200 numbered copies on vellum, single edition with 25 Japan.
Illustrated book of 12 photographs of Man Ray taken in rotogravure by Breger.
Beautiful copy.

first edition.
Binding in full two-color glossy navy blue and orange paper, smooth dumb spine, first board decorated with an abstract and geometric decoration of gold and black fillets, author's name and title of the work struck in gold at the head and at the bottom of the dish, preserved covers, golden head, rhodoid protecting the preserved binding, elegant abstract binding signed by Pierre-Lucien Martin and dated 1955.
A small trace of friction without gravity at the head of a counterplate.
Beautiful copy pleasantly established.

First edition, one of 200 non-trade copies numbered on tinted Alfa paper and reserved for the press service.
Binding in bradel in half burgundy box, smooth back, flat of pebbled paper, guards and backs of brown paper, preserved covers and back, golden head, binding signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Illustrated book with a portrait of the author and four drawings by Pablo Picasso.
Beautiful copy perfectly established.
Precious autograph signed by Paul Eluard to Victoria Ocampo: "... with my most friendly respectful feelings ..."

First edition on current paper.
The second volume is missing, two small tears in the foot of the back.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Eluard, on the first volume, to Michel Couppé.

Les Lettres françaises. Special issue on the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane


Les Lettres françaises | Paris 1er Août 1944 | 22x27,5 cm | one sheet

First edition of this clandestine journal of the intellectual Resistance, established by Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan.
A rare copy of this special issue that denounces and raises awareness of the awful massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, carried out by the «Das Reich» division of the SS on the 10th June 1944. he account of the massacre is followed by an extract of the call to arms by Victor Hugo in 1871 against the Prussian army.
his final issue before the liberation was printed in 20,000 copies, but the fragility of the paper and the conditions in which it was distributed did for almost all the print run.
Les Lettres françaises was one of the most symbolic publications of the Resistance movement. The first issue was composed at the start of 1942 but was never published and was completely destroyed after the arrest of Jacques Decour, a major figure of the intellectual Resistance and founder of several clandestine journals, including La Pensée Libre which ran for only one issue and l'Université libre which ran until the liberation of France.
Les Lettres Françaises ran to 20 issues between September '42 and August '44. The greatest writers of the Resistance wrote for it, anonymously, including Aragon, Eluard, Leiris, Mauriac, Parrot, Queneau, Roy, Sartre, Seghers, Tardieu, Triolet, Vildrac, and others.
Published at the instigation of Paul Eluard and based on an account gathered by Georges Duhamel, this special edition on the eve of the liberation already points to one of the most difficult post-war tasks, that of remembrance. Like the concentration camps, the massacre at Oradour was hidden by the Nazis, who tried to destroy the proof of their crimes immediately after they were committed. Thus, as early as the following day, groups of SS returned to the scene to bury the bodies and wipe away the traces, while soldiers shot anyone who tried to approach the village. The account presented in Les Lettres Françaises also mentions this «precaution«: «anyone who turned up in town was executed»; «they would have killed us if they'd known we'd already been through the town.»
Paul Éluard thus gives the French people an important written and public account of this appalling massacre of an entire village, premeditated and carefully organized by the Waffen SS. 642 civilians, more than 400 of whom were women and children, were burnt in the church or shot during the day of the 10th June 1944, a few days after the Normandy landings. The piecing together of the events of this massacre was a real challenge for the post-war tribunals, which found themselves lacking witnesses, apart from the soldiers who had taken part in the massacre themselves. At General de Gaulle's initiative, the village was left as it was and became a place of memory for later generations.
A rare and handsome copy of this important Resistance journal, giving – in its penultimate issue – a key account of Nazi barbarities.

First edition on current paper.
Some foxinges mainly affecting guards and slices of volumes.
Two handwritten signatures of Gérard Philippe on the guards of the volumes

Signed autograph ticket of 5 lines Paul Eluard to a friend named Denise.
"Dear Denise, / here is the little check / Thank you again / See you soon I hope / Affectionately yours / Paul Eluard."

[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, with the notable exception of Picabia and Duchamp who refused to be part of it.
Participation from Madame E. Bujaud, Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Valentin Parnak, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Paul Eluard, Benjamin Péret and Tristan Tzara.
We have only been able to find three copies in libraries: at Yale University Library, at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Kunsthaus Zürich Bibliothek.
One of the rarest Dada leaflets.

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.

Collective edition.
Small wettings at the bottom of the first leaflets.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Eluard to Michel Guilmet.

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 denounce the French police, but also the “brigandage” initiative that is colonialism, whose 1931 exhibition glorifies civilizing virtues.

Exposition Salvador Dalí

Galerie Pierre Colle, Paris 1932, 24 x 15,5 cm, stapled

First edition of the catalogue of Salvador Dalí's second personal exhibition, presenting 27 works by the artist (of which 2 were Surrealist objects), held at the Galerie Pierre Colle between 26 May and 17 June 1932.
Ink stains on the wrappers.

A long and beautiful poem by Paul éluard, entitled “Salvador Dalí” serves as a preface to this rare catalogue.
The poem marks éluard's cooling down and renunciation, two years after his split from his wife Gala, whom she left for Dalí. Amongst Dalí's 25 paintings cited in this catalogue, there are some that are well known today: The Persistance of Memory, Six Images of Lenin on a Piano, Agnostic Symbol.

Liberté, j'écris ton nom [Liberty]Second edition after the rare first edition that was published the same year.
Fold-out poem by Paul Eluard with color designs and drawings by his friend the French artist Fernand Léger.
Silk-screen printed on strong beige paper.
Skillfully repaired, otherwise very rare copy.

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.

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 the participation of Mrs. E. Bujaud, Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Valentin Parnak, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Paul éluard, Benjamin Péret and Tristan Tzara.
One of the rarest dada prospectus.

MAN RAY & Paul éLUARD
Facile
Glm | Paris 1935 | 18 x 24.5 cm | loose leaves
First edition, one of 1 200 numbered copies on velin paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies after 25 copies on Japan paper.
Illustrated with 12 photographs by Man Ray, rotogravure printed by Breger.
Skillful restoration to spine.
Beautiful copy.

Les Nécessités de la vie et les conséquences des rêves précédé d'Exemples [The Necessities of Life]
Illustrated edition with 12 drawings by René Magritte, one of 500 copies numbered on pur-fil paper, the only printing after 12 copies on Madagascar paper.

A nice copy.

ELUARD, Paul, under the pseudonym of Jean Du HAUT
Les sept poèmes d'amour en guerre
Bibliothèque française, No publisher (Saint-Flour) n.d. (1943), 10.5 x 13.5 cm, one folded sheet
The first edition, printed clandestinely, of which there were no large paper copies.
A good and rare copy.

Illustrated edition of 20 original Theo Kerg woods, one of 1200 copies numbered on white vellum.
Two small scratches and a tiny sting on the first board, second flat very slightly and marginally insolated without gravity.
Signed autograph Paul Eluard: "To Jean Wittmer, Dionysian / Paul Eluard, Dionysian."

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back insolated, yellowed paper as generally.
Signed autograph Paul Eluard Gaston Rageot.

New edition partly original because revised and increased and for which it was not drawn of great papers.
Small marginal tears on the boards
Illustrated book of a portrait of the author by Pablo Picasso.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Eluard to his friends Madeleine and Jean Sarigny: "... in memory of the black and white years ..."

MAN RAY & éLUARD Paul (under the nom de plume of) DESROCHES Didier & MAAR Dora. Le Temps déborde
éditions Cahier d'art, Paris 1947, 18,5 x 24,5 cm, original wrappers
First edition printed in 500 numbered copies.
Illustrated book of 11 photographs of Nush Éluard, tragically disappeared a few months earlier, by Man Ray and Dora Maar.
Rare and beautiful copy.

First edition on current paper.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Eluard, on the first volume, to Charles Dobzynski: "... to the poet to the friend ..."
This friendship was fundamental for Dobzinski, since it is Eluard who discovers the young poet of 20 years and introduces him to the "Lettres Françaises" in 1949 where he meets Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet who will preface several of his works.
Small tears without gravity in the foot of a back, a tiny marginal lack at the head of the first board of the second volume.

First edition established and annotated by Odile Felgine and Calude-Pierre Pérez, it was not drawn from great papers.
Signed autograph dedication of Odile Felgine to Jean-Baptiste Para and the readers of Europe.
Nice copy.

first edition on current paper, false mention of edition.
Autograph signed by Paul Eluard to Gaëtan Picon.
Preface by Louis Aragon.
Two pale patches on the back of the back slightly insolated, paper yellowed as usual.

First edition, one of 297 numbered copies on vellum signed and luxury justifés by André Masson initials.
Illustrated book of works by André Masson reproductions.
spine and boards marginally insolated and discolored as usual, pleasant inner state.
.

Collective Edition ur current paper.
Signed autograph of the poet Paul Eluard Jean Rousselot: "... the dramatic price of friendship I have for Max and Mony."
Back insolated.
Provenance: from the library of Jean Rousselot with ex-dono pen head of a guard.

First edition.
Navy blue and orange papier glacé, the upper cover with an abstract geometric pattern of gilt and blindruled fillets, author's name and title in gilt to head and foot of cover, covers preserved, top edge gilt, rhodoid cover protecting the binding, an elegant abstract binding signed by Pierre-Lucien Martin and dated 1955.
A little light insignificant rubbing to head of one pastedown.
A very good copy nicely bound.

Edition illustrated with 7 colored plates by Paul Eluard and 32 reproductions of Max Ernst's collages, one of 610 numbered copies on alma Marais, the only printing.
Spine and covers marginally sunned, internally good.

First edition of the French translation and adaptation established by Paul Eluard, one of 50 numbered on "pur-fil" paper only leading copies.
Handwritten signature of Paul Eluard enriched to a Christo Botev and initials of the Bulgarian poet on the half-title page.
Second handwritten signature of Paul Eluard under the justification of the draw.
Biography of the Bulgarian poet Elsa Triolet.
Rare copy and pleasant.