11.2 x 18.2cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a show of sculptures by Man Ray and a posthumous show of watercolours by  Picabia. Printed in blue, red and green. VG+.

27 x 21cm, 1pp announcement leaflet for a public meeting and exhibition - the text warns: "We won't talk much We will see a lot of moving things and in colour, interruptions will be part of the program". Paper is a little fragile and browned but a hard to find document. 

A sequential and substantial run of this important avant garde revue (edited by Paul Dermee and Michel Seuphor) bound together in a single period binding (cloth covered boards with embossed leather label on spine). 27 x 17.5cm, most numbers are unpaginated although most are approximatly 50 - 72pp. and volume 28 is, in fact, numbered 2320 to 2391.

Many important contributions by the major progressive literary figures of the time and there are many texts on important contemporaries such as Poe. Illustrated throughout with colour and b/w plates of architecture and art including many cubist works after Picasso and Leger (for example).

Particularly important here is issue nr 26 which was solely dedicated to the recently deceased figure of Guillaume Apollinaire with reproductions after drawings, watercolors, manuscripts and letters by the poet, seven portraits of him by Pablo Picasso and two by Louis Marcoussis (one of which is an original lithograph printed in red) + other related facsimile documents and photographs. The special number includes the poet's short tale 'La Plante', correspondence and poems (reproduced in facsimile). Other texts by Celine Arnauld, Paul Dermee, Pierre-Albert Birot, Ivan Goll, Francis Picabia, Andre Salmon, Roch Grey, et. al. + letters to Apollinaire by Fernand Divoire, Picabia, et. al.. Alone the special number is a very scarce item but a complete run of 10 numbers is a significant find.

The original wrappers have not been retained within the binding and there is one (easily remedied) condition problem here in that the weight of the approx 750 pages bound together has caused the internal page block to fall and cleanly tear the binding down the marbled endpapers on the front side although the rear endpapers are still attached although only just - as are the laid in and bound in (here) various maps and fold out architectural documents at the back of the 10 volume run. Elsewhere the paper is browned and the odd page is slightly stressed again due to the weight of the internal page block but over all this is a very good+ run with the stated problems well within a paper conservator's or binder's ability to correct.

Price is for all ten numbers including the special number

21 x 18cm, 40pp. Original red and blue wrappers. The exhibition catalogue for this important exhibition of cubist works as shown at the London Gallery organised by ELT Mesens and filled with works by Penrose, Lee Miller, Gistac Kahnweiler and others. Foreword by Robert Melville and contributions translated by Mesens from Apollinaire, Breton and lengthy notes also by Mesens. B/w illustrations throughout and twenty-six black and white plates after works by Picasso, Braque, Leger, Gris, De La Fresnaye, Picabia, Marcoussis and Masson. Placing cubism at the centre of avant garde development the catalogue also critiques the movement from a later surrealist position - Braque being oh so slightly dismissed (especially by Breton) and Picasso regarded as part of the inner circle (which given his adherence to surrealism and communism post-cubism is not so surprising). A couple of faint coffee cup stains on the front covers, which do not detract that greatly, else VG. Scarce.

41 x 29cm, 6pp. Exhibition catalogue in form of a newspaper - seven works in colour and nine in b/w reproduced and a text (in Italian and French) by Maurizio Fagiolo. Folded for storage twice else VG+.

19 x 14cm, 16pp. Five b/w reproductions after works by the artist. Original wrappers. First edition. A scarce catalogue of works by the abstract-Surrealist Boumeester.

Particularly noteworthy for the text contributions by Noel Arnaud, Gaston Bachelard, Max Clarac-Serou, Francis Picabia and Iaroslav Serpan. One of only 200 numbered examples from a total issue of 225. Boumeester (with her husband Henri Goetz) participated in the exhibitions of the short-lived post-WWII para-Surrealist 'Vrille' group, together with Jean Atlan, Victor Brauner, Picabia, Raoul Ubac, Gerard Vulliamy, and others. Evrard de Rouvre coordinated the group. A very good+ example of this elusive documentation.<br />

21 x 16cm, 2pp. Pictorial postcard issued by Schwartz as part of a series of modern art images - here the title painting by the surrealist of a Hen Roost. VG.

10.5 x 13.5cm. 4pp self cover. Exhibition catalogue with an original text by Picabia for this post-war show of his later paintings. Apart from a owner's past neat pen annotation on the front page very good.

21 x 13.5cm. 4pp self cover. Exhibition catalogue for this immediate pre-war Picabia show where many of the works first displayed evidence of the future abstractionist direction taken by the Dadaist/surrealist. Short text by Albert Flament ("Picabia vient d'epouser la nature") and 39 works listed. Former horizontal fold apparent but otherwise very good.

14.5 x 11.2cm, 2pp. Vintage promotional postcard for a dada exhibition of Picabia works - with on the front a reproduction of 'Colonel' 1917 and overleaf gallery details and usual postcard formatting. Near fine with only minor browning.

10.5 x 13.7cm. 1pp Announcement card with typographic text. The sole documentation for this pre-war retrospective of dada and new surrealist works. Fine although the word "Picabia" is written in ink top right by a former owner.