André BRETON, Henri LE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU
Flagrant délit - Rimbaud devant la conjuration de l'imposture et du truquage[Caught in the Act – Rimbaud Confronted with the Conspiracy of Deception and Fakery]
Thésée|Paris 1949|19 x 24 cm|broché
First edition printed on alfa paper.
Spine faded, a pleasant copy complete with its errata leaf.
Work illustrated on the cover with a reproduction of a lithograph by Douanier Rousseau.
Inscribed by André Breton to Professor Georges Blin: "... en très haute estime et amitié..."
Georges Blin, a specialist in the works of Baudelaire and Stendhal, was an important literary critic and academic (he was among those, along with Vladimir Jankélévitch and Jean Wahl, who sat on the Sorbonne jury for Emmanuel Lévinas’s doctoral thesis, Totalité et infini). He also served as director of the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet of the Universités de Paris (Sorbonne,
Spine faded, a pleasant copy complete with its errata leaf.
Work illustrated on the cover with a reproduction of a lithograph by Douanier Rousseau.
Inscribed by André Breton to Professor Georges Blin: "... en très haute estime et amitié..."
Georges Blin, a specialist in the works of Baudelaire and Stendhal, was an important literary critic and academic (he was among those, along with Vladimir Jankélévitch and Jean Wahl, who sat on the Sorbonne jury for Emmanuel Lévinas’s doctoral thesis, Totalité et infini). He also served as director of the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet of the Universités de Paris (Sorbonne,
€580