Four numbers, uniformly 27 x 21cm, 88pp, 96pp, 108pp and 132pp respectively. The penultimate surrealist journal which received Breton's approval (and arguably the last as  L'Archibras was published posthumously to Breton despite the latter's assent to the publication). Contributors include Alechinsky, Auduin, Benayoun, Bedouin, Dax, Ivsec, Luca, Mansour (the contributions), Mayoux, Nouge, Svanberg amongst others. Illustrated throughout in b/w by the likes of Toyen, Parent, Camancho, Klapheck and others. All in very good condition although nr 6 has some minor chipping to the wrappers.

Price is for all four numbers - we may sell individual numbers from the set do enquire.

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.

18 x 13.5cm, 88pp. B/w offset textual illustrations by Pierre Alechinsky. Pictorial card wrappers designed by Alechinsky. First trade issue of this frenetic Surrealist work by Mansour. The abstract designed by Alechinsky at once undermine and add a subjective edge to the proceedings with every page illustrated on the upper half of the book. There is also on the inner French fold a surrealist drawing of the author by Pierre Molinier. A close to fine example. This copy one of 1,750 on offset sirene.

13 x 18cm. 114pp. + an original b/w lithograph signed and numbered by Mansour (laid-in). Pictorial wrappers with a design in colors by Pierre Alechinsky. First edition of these poems by Mansour. One of 250 examples, inclusive of an intriguing signed and numbered original graphic with Egyptian overtones by the author/artist of whom her Northern Af rican origins are oft overlooked. A close to fine example in like publisher's Card slipcase. Scarce.<br />

18 x 11cm, 38pp. Original wrappers. First edition of the Surrealist's first published book. Mansour's poems (here) constitute a complex and unique synthesis of dark erotic and extremist impulses melded to the formal Surrealist concepts of liberation. A fine example. Scarce.

19 x 12 cm 122pp, original wrappers. First edition of this book of poetry by the surrealist here with an envoi for the Cobra artist Jaguer: :Pour hermine et edouard amis de toujours indispensables et merveilleux amis avec fougue et fureur amicable , Joyce". Very good.

19.5 x 14.3 cm, , 123pp. Original wrappers. First edition of Mansour's poetry collection. This example has a handwritten dedication by the author to Edouard Jaguer. Internal paper is a little browned else VG.

27 x 21.5cm. 78pp. 36 full-page reproductions of works by the artist, 25 of which are in color. B/w frontispiece photo-portrait of Molinier. Original glossy wrappers in colour, after a painting by Molinier.

First edition of this attractive monograph, detailing the Surrealist-affiliate's paintings. Molinier's fetishistic gender-bending photographic self-portraits were the basis for many of his painted works. However the interest in the photo pieces has somewhat obscured his intended, more public legacy. A fine copy of this colourful and informative reference.

18 x 13.5cm, 88pp. Original card wrappers designed by Alechinsky. B/w offset textual illustrations by Pierre Alechinsky.

First trade issue of this frenetic Surrealist work by Mansour. The abstract designed by Alechinsky at once undermine and add a subjective edge to the proceedings with every page illustrated on the upper half of the book. There is also on the inner French fold a surrealist drawing of the author by Pierre Molinier. A close to fine example. This copy one of 1,750 on offset sirene although there is a seven line dedication by Mansour again probably for Jageur - "pour Edouard et Hermine les souvenirs passes et futurs de leur amie amoureuse de l'amitie, Joyce, Paris decembre 1969".

19.5 x 14.5 cm, 154 pp. Original wrappers with dustjacket (with a design by Camacho) and plain back slipcase.

First edition of this collection of poems by Mansour which has six full page lithographs by the artist and laid in an original 19 x 15cm, b/w surrealist etching which is signed and numbered from a total limitation of 300 copies. The book is also hand numbered from an edition of 300 copies.

Sadly the bottom edge of the dustjacket has at some point torn when being replaced in the slipcase by a careless owner so there is a ragged 5cm tear at the bottom edge but otherwise the book is in near fine condition as is the etching.

13 x 16cm. 240pp. Textual illustrations in b/w by Max Walter Svanberg. Wrappers with a pictorial design by Svanberg.

First trade edition of this remarkable Surrealist narrative. Mansour was arguably the most important female proponent of the movement's aims after WWII. Les Gisants Satisfaits is nothing less than a post-modern melding of eroticism (in extremis) and Feminist discourse. Svanberg's images more than complement the complex alchemy of Mansour's text.

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.