Le Garde Henry (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 8vo. 190 + 2pp (catalogue). Red cloth with black lettering on spine. White dw with drawing of two men fighting, green, black and white lettering, not price clipped 10/6 net. Covers : knock bottom of spine, very slight knock rear bottom corner else very clean & bright. Dw : 1cm heavy rub on top edge of spine, some grubby/dusty marks on rear else clean & unchipped. Contents : small fox spot + very faint foxing outside edges of pages else very clean & tight. Clean tight copy in bright boards of a chiller thriller. VG+/VG.…

Octavo. 22cm. Original card wraps with collage and paint titles to front and rear cover. 30pp. Covers a little sunned to the extremities with some wear and soiling to the collage additions, bright and attractive; Mimeographed page block originally stapled to wraps with one staple, but now detached, clean, untrimmed, toned due to poor paper quality. A very good copy with more collage art to the covers than is usually seen. An anarchic literary and artistic journal that ran for 7 issues before changing its name to "Topiques" later in 1952, and continuing sporadically until the end of 1953. Poetry, dramatic works, and prose pieces aimed at disrupting the percieved stagnation of the art revue scene in 1950's France, cheaply mimeographed, with every issue bearing unique titling and cover art, usually limited to 200 copies per issue, perhaps unsurprisingly in view of the work intensive production methods. …