Nadja

BRETON André. Nadja
Nrf, Paris 1928, 12 x 19 cm, original wrappers
First edition, an advance [service de presse] copy.
Autograph inscription from André Breton to his friend Jean Carrive: “à Jean Carrive, son vieil ami”.
Spine slightly wrinkled and occasional foxing mostly to upper cover.
André Breton compares Jean Carrive to Rimbaud when in 1923 he brought this “Gascon terrorist” to Paris and mentions him in the Manifesto of Surrealism as one of the 19 who “acted with absolute surrealism”.