30.8 x 23.8cm, 2pp. Black on green (Ca commerce bien!) and red on white (Familiers¦) - a double sided tract. The rare re-issue of this attack on the bourgeois appropriation of Rimbaud by critics on the centenary of the poet's birth as signed by Bedouin, Benayoun, Dax, Flamond, Goldfayn, Hantai, Lebreton, Legrand, Mitrani, Paalen, Peret, Pierre, Reigl, Schuster, Seghers, Toyen and Valore for the surrealist group (mostly those around Phases) and Michele Bernstein, Mohamed Dahou, Guy Debord, Jacques Fillon and Gil Wolman for the International Lettristes.

The original publication of the tract was produced only a few months beforehand but the surrealists had second thoughts and immediately withdrew their support for the text  (which had been originally written by one amongst their own number and signed as an act of solidarity by Debord etc). The surrealists apparently felt the text to be too leftist despite the original being from their own hand! Hence the reissue here by the the Surrealist Group with an additional printing on the back of the text: "Familiers du grand truc"  where many of the same signatories (now with Breton's name significantly added along with Meret Oppenheim and Nora Mitrami amongst others) denounced their former signatories in harsh terms (suggesting scandalously that they were Stalinists and future participants in Moscow show trials).

One closed paper tear (0.6 x 0.8cm) bottom right which does not affect the texts on either side and wear and tear around margins.

This is a rare publication in any condition from the early debates that led clearly to formation of the International Situationists after the splits of the 50s and 60s within the avant garde.

12 numbers in 6 issues including the double number 10/11. Directeur Gerard Legrand.  Uniformly 25 x 30 cm. 3 to 7 pages per. All illustrated with numerous b/w drawings and reproductions of paintings and photographs. Photographic wrappers bound into printed publisher's paper over boards.

A complete run of this revue as bound into boards by the publisher at the end of the entire run. Bief was conceived as a supplement to "Surrealisme Meme" however it took on a life of its own given that Bief became more of a polemic vehicle than the former publication. Strident and wickedly funny at times. Contributions by Breton, Bedouin, Dax, Toyen, Paalen, Arp, Pierre, Peret, Lebel, Mayoux, Schuster, Mitrani, et. al. A near fine copy.

22 x 16cm,  32pp. Original wrappers. First edition of this collective Surrealist publication. Issued in response to an article by Geroges Hugnet, which the authors took as an insult to the memory of Peret. This first publication of the ˜Association". A fine example in like dustwrapper with pasted-down title label. Very uncommon.

22.5 x 14.5cm, 8pp black on yellow. Collective tract creating a public feud between the "left" of the group and the new artistic journal Planete published by Louise Pauwels and Jacques Bergiers. The debate did Planete no harm - it thrived. Signed by Bedouin, Benayoun, Breton, Dax, Jaguer, Revel amongst others. Fine.

20. x 20. 5 cm. 4pp tract black on green. A political leaflet distributed as one of the last hurrahs of the most politicised section of the surrealists. The text is a diatribe against the atomic bomb. Signed by (amongst others) Mesens, Toyen, Mansour, Peret, Breton and Lebel. Very good apart form a few small closed tears around the extremities and some unavoidable fading of the green.

This copy was previously owned by Toyen and is stamped "Toyen Succession".

26 x 20cm, 1pp black on deep red. Political pamphlet supporting the Hungarian uprising against Stalinism (and quickly crushed by the Soviet army). Signed by eighteen members of the group including Bedouin, Benayoun, Breton, Dax, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Nora Mitrani and Benjamin Peret amongst others. Fine.

26 x 20cm, 1pp black on olive green. Important late political papillion issued by the group condemning the election of 52 deputies of the Poujadiste movement to the national assembly - "of whom it is not an exaggeration to call fascists".

Signed by nineteen members of the group and in solidarity by Charles Estienne - the printed names include Bedouin, Benayoun, Breton, Dax, Nora Mitrani and Benjamin Peret amongst others. Fine.

24 x 16, 4pp. First edition of this tract reasserting the surrealist group's adherence to the Third International and condemning the French imperialist struggle in Algeria (calling for a cease fire) and lining the group up with other international struggles (such as the Spanish student revolts).

Additionally the brochure quotes Eluard's poem in praise of Stalin in full emphasising in bold the lines which Breton saw as particularly offensive and anti-revolutionary. Signed in print by Bedouin, Benayoun, Breton, Brunius, Dax, Legrand, Mitrani and Peret amongst others. An image of Leon Trotsky by Annenkoff is reproduced on the back cover. Fine.

44 x 13cm, 1pp. Political tract and manifesto printed, unusually for such tracts, black on red crepe paper and rolled up for distribution - the leaflet was a call for arms for a new generation of surrealists who gathered around Breton.

Signed in print by Bedouin (who wrote most of the text), Benayoun, Breton, Brun, Dax, Ferry, Mitrani, Peret, Man Ray, Toyen and Trouille amongst others. Very good with some fold marks unavoidable due to the unusual format employed.