30.5 x 24.5cm, 72pp. Original printed cards. An important monograph and exhibition catalogue with a text in French by Toyen's friend and sometime collaborator Radovan Ivsic. Numerous illustrations of Toyen's works throughout in b/w and colours. Minor wear and a slight tear at base of dustjacket but overall very good. Not often encountered.

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.

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.

28.4 x 21cm, 1pp black and yellow on white. Surrealist tract denouncing the named artists for signing a public appeal on behalf of the jailed Spanish painter Siqueiros who had been jailed for his (supposed) part in the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Signed in print by Alechinsky, Audouin, Bedoin, Benayoun, Benoit, Breton, Dax, Ivsic, Jaguer, Mansour, Mayoux, Parent and Toyen amongst others. Scarce. Near fine apart from a tiny tear top right.

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".