SAINT GHETTO DES PRETS. GRIMOIRE. 1950.

Paris: O.L.B., 1950
23 x 29.5cm. 128pp. 47 full-page pictographic images by the author-artist. Original wrappers with a pictorial design in black and red (also) by Pomerand. First edition. Arguably, the most completely realized Lettriste bookwork of the group’s initial decade. A rueful and revelatory meditation upon the demise of the Bohemian character of Saint-Germain-des-Pres. The illustrations by Pomerand represent the proto-standard for which all future hypergraphie would be measured. Pomerand met Isidore Isou in 1945, and subsequently engaged in Lettrist performances, created various sound-based experiments (polyphonie ciselante), and literally invented the aforementioned hypergraphie form. Edition unspecified (though, undoubtedly small – c. 400 + 40 du-tete). A very good+ copy (although with a dedication by a Jacques B to a friend on the end paper and some brown spotting on many pages) of this quite exquisite Grimoire (a la Mallarme’s great  work). Rare.