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PAILLASSE (FIN A L’AFFAIRE ARAGON)

paul robertson — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 07:30:45 +0000

Paris: Editions Surrealiste, mars 1932

21 x 13.5cm. 16pp. Original wrappers. The first edition of this counter- attack on Aragon after his own reposte to Breton in "Misere de la Poesie"; with original contributions by Char, Crevel, Dali, Eluard, Ernst, Peret, Tanguy, Thirion and Tzara.

The wrappers here have a former owner's name on the top left written in ink and some signs of dampness on the brown wrappers which have caused some stains and wrinkles but internally all is VG. Scarce but priced to account for the condition issues.

PERMETTEZ! 1927.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 10:07:46 +0000

Paris: Group Surrealiste. 1927

26.8 x 21cm. 4pp. Black on white. First edition of this open letter condemning the bourgeois appropriation of Rimbaud on the occasion of an unveiling of a monument to the gunrunner, pimp and poet. Signed in print by Aragon, Arp, Baron, Breton, Desnos, Duhamel, Eluard, Ernst, Leiris, Masson, Naville, Nouge, Peret, Prevert, Queneau, Tanguy and Unik amongst others. Slightly browned otherwise very good. Scarce early tract.

LE SURREALISME AU SERVICE DE LA REVOLUTION. NO. 4. 1932.

paul robertson — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:29:41 +0000

Paris: Jose Corti/Editions des Cahiers Libres, 1932. A single issue. 29.7 x 17.5cm. 36 + 4pp of b/w plates. B/w reproductions after drawings and photo-pieces. Original wrappers with heraldic emblem and printed in phosphorescent ink. A single number of this second Surrealist revue, as directed by Breton, and which marked the group's transition toward revolutionary activity. Text and pictorial contributions by Louis Aragon, Hans Arp, Louis Bunuel, Rene Char, Salvador Dali, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Unik, Rene Crevel and others. Very good estate with some minor spine damage and fading to wrappers. Internally mostly an uncut example although the cheap paper is now browning as would be expected. Scarce.