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BRETON (André). Les Vases communicants. Paris, Éditions des cahiers libres, 1932. Small in-8 paperback, illustrated cover, in modern slipcase. First edition printed in 2025 copies; n°1622 of 2000 on vellum omnia. Copy of surrealist writer and film critic Georges SADOUL (1904-1967) with his bookplate. Enclosed is a school notebook known as "la Girafe" (identical to the one used by André Breton for his notes on Freud's Science of Dreams, which had largely inspired the writing of the first part of "Les Vases communicants"), of 10 blank ff., into which 3 documents have been slipped: a piece of paper tablecloth bearing 3 unsigned ORIGINAL DRAWINGS in pencil, dated September 8, 1931 by André Breton, they illustrate a dream described in "Les Vases communicants" pp. 139, 141 AND 143, Oeuvres complètes, La Pléiade, volume 2: "L'Enveloppe silence" and "La Transormation d'un rêve en pot de chambre", a handwritten invoice on Hôtel Reine des Alpes letterhead dated August 21, 1931 for Messrs. Breton and Sadoul, and a postcard of the Castillon dam near Castellane in the Alps. The notebook is protected in a modern slipcase. Beautiful and rare provenance.

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BRETON (André). Les Vases communicants. Paris, Éditions des cahiers libres, 1932. Small in-8 paperback, illustrated cover, in modern slipcase. First edition printed in 2025 copies; n°1622 of 2000 on vellum omnia. Copy of surrealist writer and film critic Georges SADOUL (1904-1967) with his bookplate. Enclosed is a school notebook known as "la Girafe" (identical to the one used by André Breton for his notes on Freud's Science of Dreams, which had largely inspired the writing of the first part of "Les Vases communicants"), of 10 blank ff., into which 3 documents have been slipped: a piece of paper tablecloth bearing 3 unsigned ORIGINAL DRAWINGS in pencil, dated September 8, 1931 by André Breton, they illustrate a dream described in "Les Vases communicants" pp. 139, 141 AND 143, Oeuvres complètes, La Pléiade, volume 2: "L'Enveloppe silence" and "La Transormation d'un rêve en pot de chambre", a handwritten invoice on Hôtel Reine des Alpes letterhead dated August 21, 1931 for Messrs. Breton and Sadoul, and a postcard of the Castillon dam near Castellane in the Alps. The notebook is protected in a modern slipcase. Beautiful and rare provenance.

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