L'amour fou

BRETON André. L'Amour fou [Mad Love]
Gallimard, Paris 1937, 14 x 19 cm, original wrappers
First edition, an advance [service de presse] copy.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by André Breton to Benjamin Crémieux.
Spine repaired, small tears and repaired marginal lacks to covers.
Illustrated.
A stunning “homage of deep affection” for the author of Inquiétude et reconstruction [Anxiety and Reconstruction], an unflinching portrait of Surrealism between the wars that remains to this day a key reference work. This moving inscription from André Breton on one of his major works is testimony of the respect of the Pope of Surrealism for Crémieux's realistic views in his polemics.