45 - René CREVEL. *Feuilles éparses*. Paris, Louis Broder, 1965.

René CREVEL. *Feuilles éparses*. Paris, Louis Broder, 1965. Small in-4, loose-leaf, printed cover with pasted-on endpapers, publisher’s half-vellum slipcase, box. Collected edition, partly in the original format. Two texts appear here for the first time: *Le Cygne de Pau* (1924), an essay focusing in particular on Mallarmé, and *Mysticisme, prière et réalisme catholique* (1931): “this essay notably contains attacks on the Claudelian interpretation of Rimbaud and the theories of Abbé Bremond” (Étienne-Alain Hubert, *Essai de bibliographie des écrits de René Crevel*, no. 283). The illustrations consist of 14 original prints: 1 woodcut by Arp, 2 drypoints by Hans Bellmer, 1 drypoint by Valentine Hugo, 1 lithograph by Wols, and 9 etchings by Camille Bryen, Oscar Dominguez, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, S.W. Hayter, Wifredo Lam, Man Ray, André Masson, and Joan Miró. Limited edition of 150 copies on Rives vellum (No. 115), signed at the top by all the illustrators, with the exception of Dominguez and Wols, who had passed away prior to publication. (Chapon, *Le Peintre et le Livre*, pp. 252 and 303.—Cramer, *Joan Miró: Illustrated Books*, no. 99.)