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

19.4 x 14.5cm, 304pp. Original pictorial wrappers. First and only edition of this memoire by the Polish Cubist and poetess Halicka. Helicka's life was lived at the heart of the Parisian avant garde - not only a fine artist in her own life, Halicka married fellow Cubist Louis Marcoussis who supplies portraits of the various artists mentioned in this book. Together they befriended many artists and writers who were instrumental in the early avant garde movements of Parisian cultural society including Appolinaire, Braque, Gris, Dufy and Andre Salmon amongst others. Appolinaire became close and subsequently reviewed Halicka's work in Soirees de Paris. Soon thereafter Halicka exhibited at the Salon des Independants and began to work under the influence of Zborowski, who was a strong proponent of Cubism.

In 1919, because of her husband's disapproval of her closeness to Zborowski, Halicka destroyed much of her cubist work and instead focused on collage and fabric design and by 1920 she exhibited at the Salon des Independants, Salon d'Automne, Salon des Tuileries and the Salon Surindependants. In 1925 Halicka illustrated Enfantines by Valery Larbaud and Les Enfants du Ghetto by Israel Zangwill. She also created set designs for several ballets while in the United States, one of which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera New York and thereafter Covent Garden, London. Halicka spent the duration of World War II in France and in 1946 she published this book of memoirs.

Only 50 copies were produced in total and this is copy number 49. There are various reproductions of portraits by Marcoussis hors texte throughout including Appolinaire. This copy is in near fine shape with some mild browning to the paper and a tear on the glassine paper over the front cover which does not detract at all. A significant find of significant research value to all students of the early French avant garde.