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Signed book, First edition

André BRETON Nadja

André BRETON

Nadja

Nrf, Paris 1928, 12x19cm, relié.


Nadja
Nrf | Paris 1928 | 12 x 19 cm | Bradel binding
 

First edition, one of 796 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only grands papiers (deluxe copies) after 109 réimposés.
Full green board Bradel binding, title label in glazed yellow calf, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Presentation copy inscribed by André Breton: “à Edmond Jaloux, hommage très dévoué. André Breton” (“To Edmond Jaloux, very devoted tribute. André Breton”)
Edmond Jaloux, one of the earliest promoters of surrealism, wrote the most stellar critic of Nadja, atypical novel deeply misunderstood by most of its contemporaries. He concluded his study by admitting the uselessness of criticism facing the modernity of Breton's work: “this examination, I can sense it, remains outside the book and in no ways gives you the feeling of intense poetry, of great, free and true poetry which absolves Nadja and which affects your mind [...] like an extremely intoxicating alcohol, with this difference that no alcohol gives you dreams that stimulate the moving prose of Monsieur André Breton.” 
Precious grand papier (deluxe) copy inscribed by the author, with the original clipping of Jaloux's article on two double leaves tipped in the book.
 

4 800 €

Réf : 75123

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