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Paris: GLM, 1935 Quarto 24.5x18 cm., wrappers, 20(1)pp., loose as issued. No. 791 of 1000 copies on velin of 1220 overall. A very successful collaboration of poet and photographer, with extraordinary sensuous photos of Eluard’s wife Nusch coupled with page design incorporating the poetry cycle therein. It is rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest surrealist publications. This is a fine, crisp copy, in custom clambshell box bearing hand-tooled leather spine.

Paris: Editions GLM, 1935. First edition. Unbound folded gatherings laid into publisher's photographically illustrated wrapper, as issued. Some creasing to the front cover at the spine, as often seen, slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. Interior clean and bright. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase, with title printed on front cover of chemise and displayed through cut-outs on the slipcase. Binder's signature within the chemise, dated 1988.Of a total edition of 1225 copies, this is one of 200 roman-numeraled hors commerce copies. Signed on the half-title by both Eluard and Man Ray, and inscribed to Leon Pierre-Quint, the literary director and editor of the major surrealist publishing house Editions du Sagittaire, and friend and biographer to Proust and Gide. Although not an uncommon book, the hors commerce copies are less seen, and it is very rare to find it signed by both authors.Facile is one of the most beautiful and influential books of the twentieth century, the very definition of a… Leer más

Paris: Editions G. L. M. 79 Avenue de Segur. Type printed by Les Presses des Editions G. L. M. [Guy Lévis Mano, typographer (1904-1980)]; heliogravures printed by Les Presses de Breger, 1935. 4to. (9 1/2 x 7 inches). pp. 52. Foliated in pencil 1-18 including 5 original photographs. Number 388 out of 1000 copies on papier velin from a total edition of 1,225 copies: 25 on Japan of which 5 were hors commerce, and 200 on papier velin hors commerce numbered VI to CCV. Original book is illustrated with twelve black and white heliogravure photographs, one of which is a double-page, with four poems. Extra-illustrated with 5 original Man Ray photographs, including one which is solarized, printed from original negatives between 1967 and 1970. Various image sizes: (7 1/2 x 6 inches to 9 x 7 inches). Bound by Henri Mercher (1912-1976) who worked with many prominent artists including Joan Miró and Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp). Lettered in gold on doublure [MERCHER]. Mercher patented a binding process using… Leer más