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.

32.5 x 25.5 cm, 4pp. A lengthy text mostly by Breton in which the group condemned the activities of the Gallery Kleber which had organised the "Commemorative Ceremonies of the Condemnation of Siger de Brabant" - an exhibition with a catalogue text which argued for the return to "Christian" values. Given the gallery's owners were two former surrealists (Hentai and Mathieu) this was a double sin and the wrath of the group was made public. The surrealists (always anti-clerical) also took the chance to attack the Pope as the head of a tyranny.

Signed by Bedoin, Benayoun, Bona, Breton, Dax, Ivsic, Legrand, Mansour, Mitrani, Oppenheim, Peret, Schuster and Toyen amongst others this is a scarce publication. Some surface abrasion, minor light grubbiness and minor marking to outer surfaces and a printer's ink stain to the left side of the front page (none of which affects the text at any point) this is just below very good but certainly a useful and interesting document to have nonetheless. Priced thus.

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.

54 x 21pp, 2pp. Black on green paper Public tract (anonymously written) given to journalists during the exhibition L’Ecart absolu (also known as the Exposition internationale du Surréalisme,in the galerie de l'Œil à Paris) attempting to justify the movement's existence in the last years of its activities. Signed in print by the usual suspects - Alechinsky, Audoin, Bedoin, Benoit, Breton, Camacho, Dax, Legrand, Ivsic, Joubert, Le Brun, Mansour, Parent and Toyen amongst others.

25 x 19cm, 2pp black on pink. Surrealist tract attacking the evolution of the French Communist Party into early euro-communism and leaving revolutionary activity behind as well as reawakening old scores between the Group and Aragon. Breton had died the previous year and the group was de facto leaderless at this point although there were no shortage of pretenders. Signed in print by Audoin, Bedoin, Benoit, Camacho, Dax, Ivsic, Le Brun, Mansour, Parent and Toyen amongst others. Fine.

27 x 21cm, 1pp black and yellow on white. Surrealist tract attacking de Gaulle for his attitude to Spanish republicans. Signed in print by Audouin, Bedoin, Benayoun, Breton, Dax, Jaguer, Mayoux, Schuster amongst others. Near fine.

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".

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.

20 x 35 cm, 16pp. A single out of series special edition of this surrealist journal which is solely textual in  content. Directeur: Jean Schuster.  Contributions all relate to the workers and student strikes/revolution of May 1968 from the perspective of only 4 months after the excitement. VG.