18.5 x 18.5cm, 246pp. Boards. Monograph considering the fascination that the erotic held for the surrealists with images of works and of the artists: Dali, Man Ray, Picasso, Miro, Tanguy , Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Edvard Munch and others. This example has a short dedication in black and red ink by the author on the title pages.

32 x 24cm, 2pp black on green paper - public tract (written by Breton?) which outlines the aims of the Surrealist movement in 1960. Signed in print by Jean Louise Bedouin, Robert Benayoun, Andre Breton, Alain Joubert, Gerard Legrand, Jose Pierre, Jean Schuster and Jean-Claude Silbermann.  The green of the paper has faded a little and there is a small paper lack on the left and a closed 2cm tear on the right else VG.

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.

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.

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.

13.5 x 10.7cm, 8pp folded brochure. Black and blue and black and pink (internally) Surrealist photographs created by the mirroring of a detail of an image along a vertical axis. Most of the images are oriental in origin but the manipulation of the photographs tends to cause a mystical interpretation in common with the times. Benayoun by the 60s was a regular theorist of the cinema. Slight fold marks and former light creases. Otherwise very good.

18.7 x 12cm, 50pp. Original wrappers. First edition of this drama by the surrealist. One of 975 numbered copies. Minor grubbiness on wrappers but otherwise very good.

14.5 x 11.2cm, 32pp plus original pictorial wrappers. Artist's book with 26 lithographs by the surrealist Benayoun with a distinct flavour of 1920's Picasso. The introduction by Peret is poetic.

This is an unnumbered dedicated copy of the book on velin creme which has a hand coloured lithograph by Benayoun which is signed with a short envoi for his surrealist colleague Mimi Parent, and dated '60. It seems reasonable to speculate that this is one of 24 copies reserved for the "les amis de l'autho" which has somehow not been numbered.

Very slight weakness to binding but over all very good + with very strong colouring on the lithograph. Scarce thus.

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.

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.

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".