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$20.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition. [14 pp]. Two corners lightly bent, else very good plus in printed wrappers with some light toning. Clayton Eshleman translates this 28 February 1947 letter from Artaud to Breton, composed just before the Duchamp-Breton curated 1947 International Surrealist Exhibition. Sparrow 23. Morrow & Cooney 183.$25.00Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1972. First printing of this edition. 411 pp. Very good in printed wrappers with several reading creases to spine.$25.00San Francisco: City Light Books, 1997. First printing of this edition. xix + 356 pp. Touch of soiling to top edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with light sunning to spine. Translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti, with his introduction.$125.00London & NY: Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1970. First US edition. Small 4to. [64 pp]. Bumps to upper corners, inked owner’s name to first leaf. In all, very good plus in like dust jacket with a few short tears along top edge, and some trivial soiling. Breton’s original French text with facing English translation by Kenneth White, who also contributed an introduction.$25.00Berkeley: University of California (2003). First trade paperback printing. 176 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited, with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti. All texts in English translation.$1,000.00NY: View Editions, 1946. First US edition. [56 pp]. Wear along the extrems, else very good plus in like dust jacket with chipping to base and crown of spine, two edge tears, and slight loss to tips of flap folds. Cover art by Marcel Duchamp. Internal drawings by Arshile Gorky. Original French poems with facing English translations by Edouard Roditi.
$125.00Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003. First US edition. 423 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Small publisher’s sticker inside front board, else fine in full black cloth with yellow stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Claudine Frank, with her introduction. Translated from the original French by Frank and Camille Naish.$20.00Los Angeles & Cambridge: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/MIT Press (1989). First edition. 144 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown.$25.00Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (1974). First edition. xii + 253 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$15.00Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1981. First edition. 23 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with collages and “dedicated to mass uprisings.”$17.50Edinburgh: Polygon (1991). Second edition. 233 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$20.00Chicago: Black Swan Press (1974). First edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Franklin Rosemont. Surrealist Research & Development Monograph Series Number Nine.$20.00(np): Black Swan Press [1974]. First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Jean-Jacques Jack Dauben. One of 300 copies.$20.00Rochester: Inner Traditions (1998). First printing of this edition. xv + 303 pp. Narrow band of discoloration to recto of last leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by André Breton. Translated from the original French by Jody Gladding.$20.00Chicago: Black Swan, 1974. First edition. 19 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Poems with illustrations. Surrealist Research and Development Monograph Series Number Seven.$35.00Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (1969). First edition. xi + 240 pp w/notes. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel and some rubbing.$35.00Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1974. First edition. xi + 286 pp. Light foxing to page edges, old erasures to first leaf. In all, very good plus in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed.$25.00Providence: Matrix Publications (1981). First trade paperback printing. [60 pp]. Bump to crown of spine, else near fine in wrappers and very good plus illustrated dust jacket. with a few wrinkles to front panel and light overall edge wear.$25.00London & NY: Verso (1992). First edition in English. 215 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine. Edited by José Pierre. Afterword by Dawn Ades. Translated by Malcolm Imrie.$25.00Cambridge: Radical America (nd). First edition, second issue. 26 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with one light corner bend. Poems by Rosemont, illustrated with drawings by Schlechter Duvall. Surrealist Research & Development Series Number One.$25.00Chicago: A.K.A. (1973). First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Pairs two essays, “I don’t play that game” by David Schanoes and “No more room service” by John Simmons. The whole is also undersigned by April Zuckerman. A statement by the three on the “ideological underpinnings” of the conflict that lead to the splitting up of the Chicago surrealists.$25.00NY: Thames and Hudson (1995). First US edition. xx + 424 pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket.$25.00Milan & Rome: Centro Francese De Studi/Centro Culturale Francese, Arturo Schwarz 1967. First edition. 61 pp. Small tear and wrinkle to top edge of the front panel, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Texts in Italian, French, English. Illustrated.$12.50NY & London: Columbia University Press, 1967. First edition. 48 pp w/selected bibliography. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.$25.00NY: & M.I.S.: Filipacchi (1979). First US edition. 4to. 111 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by René Passeron with quotations from Dali’s writings.$45.00NY & Oxford: New York Public Library, 1986. First US edition. 4to. xvi + 192 pp w/selective bibliography. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with sunning to spine and two short tears. Foreword by Vartan Gregorian. Essays by Anne Hyde Greet, Evan M. Maurer, and Rainwater.$20.00NY: International Center of Photography (1990). First edition. Small 4to. 95 pp. Light tape reside to first leaf and verso of last leaf, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Willis Hartshorn and Merry Foresta.$35.00Parma: Galleria d’Arte Nicolli (1982). First edition. 69 pp. Reading crease along spine, else very good in glossy illustrated wrappers. One item number circled, with a price added.
$650.00Norfolk: New Directions, 1936. First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. The first book of the press, issued as “New Directions Pamphlets, Number One.” In his introductory note the publisher, James Laughlin, names the author, “the first American surrealist writer.” More than half a century later, in his afterword to Andrews' posthumous THE SURREALIST PARADE (New Directions, 1990), Laughlin recalled that “Wayne became my friend at Harvard...about 1935” and “the original 'Pianos' was...printed in an edition of 300 copies by the Vermont country printer who did the Harvard Advocate. But its unusual aroma quickly pervaded Harvard Square, and it was necessary to rush out a second printing.” WITH: the second printing of this work, bound in red wrappers as issued, adding the subtitle, “A Surrealist Shortstory,” and with the rear cover entirely reset with different text. Near fine. For the pair: