Manifesting Surrealism

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.

Les dessins de Hans Bellmer
First edition on ordinary paper.
Publisher's pink cloth, retaining dj and limp slipcase.
Autograph inscription signed by Hans Bellmer to monsieur Milla below the justification.
Abundantly illustrated.
Small transparent stains to lower cover of slipcase.
A good copy.

first edition.
Illustrations.
Pleasant copy.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Binding to the bradel of the publisher in full cardboard, complete copy of its rhodoid that includes a tear in the head of the back.
Autograph signed by Max Ernst to Geneviève and Gaétan (sic) Picon decorated with a drawing representing three small birds.
Illustrated book of 120 reproductions of works by Max Ernst.
Pleasant copy.

Edition printed in small numbers this reprint.
Signed autograph of Sarane Alexandrian Francis Spar: "... this study shows that Giacometti table will never be served."
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies with some hors commerce also on alfa paper.
Iconography.
Work illustrated on the cover with a portrait of André Breton by Max Ernst.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally discolored, two small lacks at head and foot of covers.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Two stains at foot of front cover and at head of back cover.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on Alfama paper.
Illustrated with a frontispiece by Jacques Hérold.
Handsome copy despite a very small black spot in the margin of the first cover.

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, review copy.
Signed autograph Tristan Tzara J. Van Heeckeren.
Back insolated, marginally weak and brittle sheets as usually.

Edition on current paper, false entry of second edition.
Signed autograph Tristan Tzara Francis Cohen.
Yellowed paper as usually.

Complete collection of these 6 booklets published in first edition and each printed on different colored paper.
Publisher's full sand-colored boards, smooth unlettered spine.
Handsome copy.

first edition.
Binding of full blue canvas editor, smooth back, full copy of his illustrated jacket.
Signed autograph Ionel Jianou Francoise Giroud.
Art editor Alex Grall stamp printed on the half-title page where the shipment as an bookplate.
Iconography.

First edition in French.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine, with the illustrated dust jacket.
Work decorated with 20 color plates and 133 black illustrations.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on pur fil du Marais paper, ours unnumbered, the only deluxe copies.
Preface by André Breton.
Spine lightly sunned without severity, newspaper clipping attached which has left a shadow on the first endpaper, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with illustrated dust jacket with marginal sunning.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.

First edition of the French translation, one of 60 copies numbered and justified by the publisher, frontispiece, the lithography Max Ernst shot in bistre on China and signed by the artist, only leading copies. One of the 20 copies in which there is an additional state of the lithograph drawn in blue on China and also signed by Max Ernst.
Stamp of the Alex Grall collection.
Rare and beautiful copy.
The

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on vergé d'Arches paper, deluxe copy.
Work illustrated with 5 original hors-texte drawings by André Masson.
Our copy is incomplete of the original lithograph that should accompany the deluxe copies.
Light marks from adhesive tape at head and foot of endpapers.

First edition.
Publisher's full black cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with illustrated dust jacket and flexible cardboard slipcase.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.

First edition printed in 3,000 numbered copies.
Publisher's binding in full black cloth, smooth spine, complete with its cellophane wrapper and dust jacket featuring an intricate system of nested covers: the dust jacket doors open to reveal the cover doors which open to show the author's name, title and publisher's name.
Rich iconography.
Light tears to the upper headcap of the dust jacket and to the cellophane wrapper, handsome copy.

First edition.
Spine and covers marginally sunned, three stains to upper cover, internally good.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on vellum, the only issue after 14 coated papers and 15 Arches.
Work illustrated by André Masson.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally sunned without significance, handsome interior condition.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph Gerard Legrand Jean Tardieu: "... my true admiration and regret of his silence ..."
A very slight scratch without gravity on the first board at the title of the book, nice copy.

Second edition, one of 500 numbered copies on vélin paper, the only printing after 20 Normandy paper.
With 15 illustrations by Kurt Séligmann.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 135 numbered copies Hollande,this one 60 reserved for a club of bibliophiles, the only large paper copy.
Illustrations.
A good copy.

First edition printed in 250 numbered copies on vergé.
With a frontispiece by Hans Bellmer.
A good copy.

First edition of the first book of André Breton, one of 115 numbered copies on Hollande, the only printing after 10 Japon.
Nicely bound in black and red Révorim by Jean de Gonet, endpapers and pastedowns of black paper, covers and spine preserved, binding made in only 200 copies.
Illustrated with two unpublished drawings by André Derain.
Occasional foxing, not serious, endpapers slightly faded al over.

First mimeographed edition of this scurrilous pamphlet written by the Z.O.B. (Zénith Occulto Barbare) on the occasion of the centenary of Paul Claudel's birth.
The anti-Claudelian diatribe concluding with an invitation to violate the young girl Violaine.
Manuscript indication of the printing date of this document at the foot of the leaf and small tears to margins.
Rare and edifying document.

First edition printed in 200 numbered copies on green paper, ours unnumbered.
Half tan box binding, smooth spine, palladium title, marbled paper boards, blue-grey endpapers and pastedowns, original covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Autograph inscription signed by René Crevel in English to Boom: " For Boom, that book writed in Davos, gived in Paris, with my affections in every part. René."
A handsome copy.

First edition, one of numbered copies on alfa, this one not justified.
With an autograph inscription from André Breton to the professor Georges Blin : "... en très vive estime and sympathie..."
Illustrated with a frontispiece by Toyen.
A good copy.

Edition partly original, review copy.
Binding half burgundy shagreen with corners, back with four nerves set with golden threads and adorned with a gilded central jewel, date and golden tail thread, plates, guards and contreplats paper moiré, preserved cover.
Signed autograph André Breton Professor Georges Blin, "... loving memory ..."

Nice copy.

First edition.
Richly illustrated.
Printed stamps as ex-libris to head of half title pages.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Normandy vellum, tirage de tête.
Retains 16 original collages by Max Bucaille.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on chiffon Auvergne paper, tirage de tête.

Spectacularly bound in black calf by Pierre-Lucien Martin, the covers inlaid with white and grey calf with a geometric decoration of gilt fillets making perspective shapes, endpapers and pastedowns of Auvergne paper, the delicate Auvergne paper covers and back preserved, top edge gilt. Slipcase with black paper flaps, lined with grey felt and with a spine of rhodoid plastic (small crack to head), trimmed with black calf and with a brown paper interior.

This copy is enriched with a manuscript sheet bearing six fragments of poems chosen and copied out by Paul Eluard, which had appeared in Poésie et vérité [Poetry and Truth] ten years before.
A magnificent copy remarkably bound in decorated black calf by Pierre-Lucien Martin.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Lenin "Comment nous tiendrons, (1923)" and "Communisme et pacifisme, (1916)", Maxim Gorky "Lénine, l'homme", Edouard Berth on Tartuffe by S. Guitry, Georges Michael "La doctrine sorélienne"...
Issue illustrated by Serge, Manolo, Barthe, Altman, Zilzer...
Unstitched copy.

First edition, one of 225 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Alexandre Blok "Le peuple et les intellectuels", Nicolas Boukharine "A la mémoire d'Ilitch", Jean Montrevel...
Issue illustrated with works by G. Zilder, Vidberg...

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Marcel Fourrier "Légitimité de la révolte riffaine", Raymond Lefebvre "Je reviens d'un long voyage éblouissant".

First edition, one of 11 numbered copies on Grand-Papyrus blanc de Pizuku, tirage de tête.
A fine copy.

First edition, one of 53 "capitaux" copies signed by the aithor and marked with the "53 grains du sorite torméen", the tirage de tête.
A very good copy, not justified.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on vellum, the only printing with 5 chine and 15 japan.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 drawings by the author.
A small spot of foxing to spine, another to upper margin of second cover, otherwise a handsome and rare copy.

Autograph manuscript by the author of 16 octavo pages published in number 8 (August 1945) of L'Arche under the title: Some Reflections on Surrealism.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, with very dense writing, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.

Some Reflections on Surrealism forms the first important text that Maurice Blanchot devoted to André Breton's movement. He rehabilitates surrealism which placed at the center of its activity the question of language and experience - aspects that could not leave Blanchot indifferent -, without forgetting to make the following observations: it carries within it a part of failure and its "situation [...] remains ambiguous".
Now increasingly asserting his aesthetic positions, Blanchot fully recognizes the poetic and experimental value of automatic writing, for its very radicalism: "Automatic writing is [...] a war machine against reflection and language. It is destined to humiliate human pride, particularly in the form that traditional culture has given it. But, in reality, it is itself a proud aspiration to a mode of knowledge and it has opened to words a new unlimited credit."
Blanchot continues his reflection and insists on the questionings of surrealist writers and poets regarding discourse: "Surrealism was haunted by this idea: that there was, that there had to be a moment [...] when language was not discourse, but reality itself, without however ceasing to be the proper reality of language [...]. The surrealists drew brilliant literary consequences from this 'discovery,' but for language the effects are more ambiguous and more varied. In this domain, they still seem above all to be destroyers. They are unleashed against discourse; they withdraw from it the right to signify something; as a means of [?] social, of precise designation, they break it ferociously. Language appears somewhat alone annihilated or sacrificed, but humiliated. In reality, it is a matter of something quite different and even the contrary: language disappears as instrument, but that is because it has become subject. Through automatic writing, it has benefited from the highest promotion [...]."
The text would be reprinted in The Work of Fire (1949), not without Blanchot having taken care to attenuate the reservations he expressed in the initial article.

First important monographic study devoted by Maurice Blanchot to the question of surrealist language.

First edition of petit nombre.
Rare, handsome inscription dated September 1924 and signed by Pierre Naville to Raymond Queneau.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned as usual.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy
Handsome autograph inscription from Robert Desnos to Janine and Raymond Queneau : "..
devant qui j'ai repassé le conseil de revision [who were my council of review]", enriched with a drawing showing a little elephant holding up Robert Desnos' name in its trunk
One joint very slightly cracked at foot.

First edition, one of 288 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête with 12 Japon.
A good copy.

Collective first edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Binding in half red old morocco, back with five nerves, date tail, plates of paper in the bowl, covers and back preserved, gilded head, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Rare autograph signed by Robert Desnos Hélène Weïand: "With all the affection of Robert and Youki ...".
Nice copy pleasantly established.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on pur fil, the only large paper copies.
Tiny foxing, not serious, to head of upper cover.

First edition, one of 975 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only large paper copies with 25 on pur fil paper.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 700 numbered copies on Rives, this one not justified, the only printing along with 50 Japon.
Handsome and rare autograph inscription from Robert Desnos to Gabriel Reuillard "...admirons l'absurdité des choses..."
A good copy.

Third edition with some parts in first edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Signed autograph inscription from André Breton to Maurice Noël on the half-title page.
Light dampstain at foot of spine extending very discreetly to lower margins of leaves.
Rare.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on vélin alfa.

First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies on white vellum, the only printing with 75 copies on celestial blue paper.
The work illustrated with tailpieces designed by O. Tamburi.
Spine slightly sunned, otherwise handsome copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Georges Hugnet to Man Ray and his wife: "...à Juliette / à Man / pour leur rappeler que j'existe et que je suis toujours leur ami fidèle. Georges..." ["...to Juliette / to Man / to remind them that I exist and that I am always their faithful friend. Georges..."]

First edition, one of the Service de Presse (advance) copies.
Precious and superb autograph inscription by the author to Moïse Kisling.
Frontispiece portrait of André Breton by Man Ray. Spine and covers slightly faded at margins, light spotting to head of front cover.

First edition, one of 250 copies on colored coated paper, the only printing with 5 China paper and 10 Auvergne paper copies.
Our copy is complete with its hors-texte drawing by Tita.
Fine copy.

First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on Arches paper, deluxe issue.
Front cover lightly shaded at head, otherwise a handsome and rare copy.
Our copy includes, as frontispiece, the signed and numbered color etching by Jacques Hérold.
Manuscript signature of Claude Sernet on the justification page.

First edition, printed in 200 numbered de luxe copies printed on pink paper.
Illustrated silver upper cover.
Contributions from A. Breton, G. Goldfayn, R. Benayoun, Man Ray, B. Péret, J. Schuster, F. Valorbe, and others.
This copy is enriched with the signatures of all the contributors.
Retaining its 5 “filmomanies symptomatiques”.
A good and rare copy.

First edition, one advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by the author to Robert Desnos.
Light and rare foxings on the upper cover, a good copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies, reimposed on green paper, the only large paper copies with 7 Japon.
A very good copy retaining its leaf "conditions".

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Japon, tirage de tête.
A rare and good copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Literary contributions by A. Breton, M. Marien, B. Péret, L. Malet, C. Dotremont, N. Arnaud...
Pictorial contributions by V. Brauner, A. Breton, S. Dali, M. Ernst, J. Miro, Y. Tanguy, P. Picasso...
One joint slightly cracked at foot, otherwise handsome copy.
Rare.

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, one of 25 hors commerce copies on green paper, deluxe issue with 25 Arches.
Cover illustrated by Mario Prassinos.
Margins very slightly and marginally lightened without consequence.

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

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

First edition on chestnut.
A small marginal tear without gravity on the second board, nice complete copy of his trailer.

First edition of only 45 numbered copies on vergé.
A rare and very good copy.

First edition printed to a very small number of copies.
Covers very slightly and marginally faded, a very good and rare copy.

First edition, one of 150 copies on ordinary paper, the only printing with 5 on Hollande paper and 10 on Featherweight.
A very good and rare copy.

First edition printed in a small number of copies.
One very pale marginal spot, a good and rare copy.

First edition.
Contributions by Meyer Schapiro "On a painting of Van Gogh", Sidney Janis "Morris Hirshfield dies", Kurt Seligmann "Magic and the arts, Charles Henri Ford "Chanson pour Billie", Paul Bowles "By the water"...
Cover illustrated by Isamu Noguchi, illustrations by Yves Tanguy, Vincent Van Gogh, Esteban Frances...

First edition, one of 750 numbered copies on Rives paper, the only issue alongside 25 Japan paper copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition. Contributions by S. Mallarmé, J. Lorrain, S. Merrill, P. Morisse, J. Renard, L. d'Orfer, A. Vallette among others. Cover stained, beautiful interior condition. Of the utmost rarity.