Mario PRASSINOS

First edition and complete run of the 9 G.L.M. cahiers issued between May 1936 and March 1939.

A few spines slightly faded, as is often the case; otherwise a pleasing copy, complete with its original publisher’s slipcase in full grey boards, with red printed title label pasted to the spine.

With numerous contributions by most of the Surrealist poets, writers, and artists, including: André Breton, René Char, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, René Crevel, Valentine Penrose, Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Michel Leiris, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and André Masson, as well as several spiritual forebears of Surrealism such as Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Raymond Roussel...

First edition, one of 25 copies on Arches paper, this one unumbered, most limited deluxe issue.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
A small tear restored to the foot of the spine, light marginal spotting on the second cover, good condition inside.
Very rare.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on tinted helio paper, printed after 25 normandy vellum.
Work illustrated, as frontispiece, with an image by Mario Prassinos.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of the unnumbered copies on Normandy vellum.
Additional literary contributions by David Gascoyne, Fernand Marc, Léon Damas, Henri El Kayem, Philippe Soupault, Caresse Crosby, Thérèse Aubray, Roger Lannes, Adrien Copperie, Halina Izdebska, René Roux, Jacques Baron...
Issue illustrated with 5 drawings by Jean Mario Prassinos.
Spine sunned and discolored with small light stains, handsome interior condition.

First edition, one of 25 numbered hors commerce copies on green paper, deluxe issue after 25 on Arches laid paper.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
Spine lightly sunned as usual.

First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on white vellum, the only deluxe copies after 25 on Arches laid paper and 25 hors commerce.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
Spine lightly sunned as usual.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on white laid paper.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
Two small lacks to head and foot of spine.

First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on white laid paper.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
A tear at the head of the spine.

First edition, one of 1200 numbered copies on white laid paper.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
A tiny insignificant lack at head of spine.

First edition, one of 25 hors commerce copies on green paper, deluxe issue with 25 Arches.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
Margins very lightly and marginally bleached without significance.

First edition, one of 25 hors commerce copies on green paper, deluxe issue with 25 Arches.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
Margins very lightly and marginally bleached without significance.

First edition of the French translation by Robert Valençay, one of 25 hors commerce copies on green paper, deluxe issue with 25 on Arches paper.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
Margins very lightly and marginally brightened, not serious.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies Arches paper, this copy not justified, the tirage de tête.
Design by Mario Prassinos after an original composition by Max Ernst.
A small tear glued to foot of spine, slight marginal stains to lower cover, internally good.
A rare copy.