Jacques RIGAUT

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Montgolfier paper, the only printing along with 8 copies on Japan paper.
The work is illustrated with a frontispiece featuring an unpublished photographic portrait of Jacques Rigaut by Man Ray.
A very fine copy.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly insolated as generally.
Precious and very rare autograph signed by Joseph Delteil to Jacques Rigaut: "... to MJ Rigaut / cordial tribute / J. Delteil".
Superb dedication, at the crossroads of "isms": while Delteil is just enthralled surreal by the "pope" André Breton in his Manifesto that ranks among those who have made "act of absolute surrealism", Rigaut, for his part is definitely moving away from Dadaism following his friend Tzara.
An emblematic figure of the literary genius consumed by drugs and despair, Jacques Rigaut did not publish anything during his lifetime (except...