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First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Handwritten signature of André Breton under the justification.
Cover illustrated with lithograph by Douanier Rousseau.
A nice copy.

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, 1961–1988), held the Chair of Modern French Literature at the Collège de France (1965–1988), and was Honorary Professor at the Collège de France.

First Edition printed on Navarre alfa alone draw with Holland 100.
Signed autograph André Breton doctor Garmonec "... his health in a range of cut granite ..."
Pleasant specimen illustrated on the cover of a reproduction of an original elithographie Henri Rousseau.