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New York, Marlowe and Company, 1993, 264 pag., paperback.
Published by Published Paris, Seuil | Collection Ecrivains de toujours N° 90 | . 1971., 1971
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 6½'' x 4¼''. Contains 192 pp French text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].
Published by Paragon House, 1993
ISBN 10: 155778423XISBN 13: 9781557784230
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The closest Andre Breton has ever came to writing an autobiography, Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within, tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the Surrealists' ideological debate with communism and their opposition to Stalin.
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.
Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1995
ISBN 10: 0803212410ISBN 13: 9780803212411
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book
First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy (faint remainder stamp) in a Fine dust jacket. Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by André Breton, the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952, they include addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. Together they display the full span of Breton s preoccupations, his abiding faith in the early principles of surrealism, and the changing orientations, in light of crucial events of those years, of the surrealist movement within which he remained the leading force.Having broken decisively with Marxism in the mid-1930s, Breton repeatedly addresses the horrors of the Stalinist regime (which denounced him during the Moscow trials of 1936). He argues for the autonomy of art and poetry and condemns the subservience to "revolutionary" aims exemplified by socialist realism. Other articles reflect on aesthetic issues, cinema, music, and education and provide detailed meditations on the literary, artistic, and philosophical topics for which he is best known. Free Rein will prove indispensable for students of Breton, surrealism, and modern French and European culture.
Published by Editions des Cahiers Libres, Paris, 1932
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
172pp. 12mo. First edition, trade issue, limited to 2000 numbered copies "sur velin omnia," text in French. 172pp. 12mo. "Andre Breton is undeniably the outstanding representative of literary Surrealism in France. his books of critical discussion of the new theories-- as, for instance. Les Vases communicants. have established his reputation as the most fully qualified exponent of the 'orthodox' Surrealist doctrine" [Lemaitre. 'From Cubism to Surrealism in French Literature,' p. 209]. Pictorial warppers. Archivally rebacked with new (unprinted) spine. Few tiny closed edge tears on front cover, text evenly browned (due to acidic paper), else a very good copy First edition, trade issue, limited to 2000 numbered copies "sur velin omnia," text in French.
Published by View, New York, 1942
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No. First Edition. Early issue of this magazine devoted to American surrealism. Edited by Charles Henri Ford. Possibly the first issue to be printed in the non-newspaper format. A special issue with half of it printed in one direction and the other half printed upside down such that you have to flip it over to read it right side up. The only issue of this magazine we have seen in this format. Light fade at spine edge else a stury well-bound beautiful example.
Published by Éditions surréalistes, [Paris], 1948
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. 13 p. 17 cm. Wrappers, fine. One of 30 numbered copies on Marais paper. Fine. An anti-clerical tract, signed (in type) by Adolphe Acker, Sarane Alexandrian, Maurice Baskine, Jean-Louis Bédouin, Hans Bellmer, Jean Bergstrasser, Roger Bergstrasser, Maurice Blanchard, Joë Bousquet, Francis Bouvet, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jean Brun, Pierre Cuvillier, Pierre Demarne, Charles Duits, Jean Ferry, André Frédérique, Guy Gillequin, Arthur Harfaux, Jindrich Heisler, Georges Henein, Maurice Henry, Jacques Hérold, Véra Hérold, Marcel Jean, Alain Jouffroy, Nadine Kraïnik, Jerzy Kujawski, Pierre Lé, Stan Lélio, Pierre Mabille, Jehan Mayoux, Francis Meunier, Nora Mitrani, Henri Parisot, Henri Pastoureau, Benjamin Péret, Gaston Puel, Louis Quesnel, Jean-Dominique Rey, Claude Richard, Jean Schuster, Iaroslav Serpan, Seigle, Hansrudy Stauffacher, Claude Tarnaud, Toyen, Clovis Trouille, Robert Valançay, Jean Vidal, Patrick Waldberg.
Published by Edward W. Titus, Paris., 1932
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Wrappers. The famous Surrealist Number. Introduction ("By Way of Introducing This Surrealist Number") by Edward W. Titus. 208 pages. Reproductions of drawings by Giorgio di Chirico, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy as well as collaborative drawings by Paul Eluard, André Breton, Tristan Tzara and others. Experimental prose, expository articles, other prose and poems by André Breton ("Surrealism: Yesterday, To-day and To-morrow"), André Breton and Paul Eluard ("The Possessions"), René Crevel ("Every One Thinks Himself Phoenix." and "The Period of Sleeping-Fits"), Salvador Dali ("The Object as Revealed in Surrealist Experiment") Paul Eluard ("Poetry's Evidence" five poems and two short pieces of prose), Max Ernst ("Inspiration to Order"), Marcel Duchamp ("The Bride Stripped Bare by her Own Bachelors"), Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali ("An Andalusian Dog"), Benjamin Péret ("At No. 125, Boulevard Saint-Germain" and five poems), Tristan Tzara (seven pieces of prose and verse); Samuel Beckett translates four of the pieces. Pages unopened.Covers slightly nicked and creased at the overlapping edges. Very good indeed. A sharp copy preserved in the glassine with which it was first issued, this having several tears.
Published by Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1938
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Large octavo. Pictorial stiff wrappers (after a design by Tanguy). Very heavily illustrated with drawings, photographs, facsimiles, etc. Pale green wrappers somewhat tanned at edges, neatly recased, with shallow loss at crown and toe of spine, usual light foxing, otherwise a very good copy in lightly chipped and tanned glassine wrapper. This copy is significantly better than the norm for this book. First edition. A multi-disciplinary exercise in self-explanation, drawing on primary texts for the definition of terms and tendencies, and reproductions of artworks by those who at various times found or placed themselves under the umbrella of Surréalisme. The work was compiled to accompany the Exposition International du Surréalisme, organized by Breton and Eluard, with the assistance of Duchamp, Ernst, Dali and others, and the uncommon [8]pp. catalogue of the exhibition (inevitably a bit tanned) is laid in.
Paperback. Condition: Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Illustrations by Frederick Kiesler. Attractive artist book with text in French by Breton. A lovely fine copy in illustrated wrappers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A superior copy.
8vo. 1 1/2 p. Letter to René Laporte, who supported Breton financially. The poet asks him to advance his January payment as the start of the year is always "difficult," and asks if Laporte has received his article on "Le Rouge et le Noir." Breton also declares that his life "continues to be so unbalanced." In fine condition.