Delaunay, Robert

ARAGON, Louis Les aventures de Télémaque. With a portrait of the author by R. Delaunay. Paris Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française 1922 In-12. Bradel rust-coloured half-chagrin with corners signed Flammarion-Vaillant, gilt threaded boards, spine titled in gold throughout (some slight scuffing), gilt t., orange cover on board. First edition of the 2nd opus by Aragon, in the collection "Une oeuvre, un portrait". Edition of 1050 copies, one of 1035 on Rives laid paper (n. 173), with the woodcut portrait printed on chine volant. "It is a Dadaist pastiche of the work of the same name by Fénelon. Aragon called it a 'cross between Fénelon and Dada'" (Wikipedia). Beautiful double autographed letter signed on the dedication page to Paul Éluard: to Marcel Noll "the most absurd is not the one we think it runs to its loss and at the end what do I find? a friend" followed by a second letter to Christian Bussy: "and forty-six years later, this comes back, this bottle in the sea, by a curious reflux, comes back to me [...]". Ref. Talvart & Place I:85. Prov. Marcel Noll, born in Strasbourg in 1902, volunteer in Republican Spain, died in 1937 on the Madrid front; close to Breton and Éluard, he contributed to "La Révolution surréaliste". - Christian Bussy (1936-2019), Belgian journalist, essayist and literary critic, a great specialist of surrealism.