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196 - Benjamin PÉRET. Three Cherries and a Sardine. With an illustration by Yves Tanguy. Paris, GLM (Repères Collection), 1936.

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Estimation

€800 - 1,000

Sale fees

30%

Benjamin PÉRET. Three Cherries and a Sardine. With an illustration by Yves Tanguy. Paris, GLM (Repères Collection), 1936. Large in-8 booklet, loose-leaf, with a red paper cover with flaps. First edition: illustrated with a composition by Yves Tanguy reproduced as a line drawing at the top of the page. Limited edition of 70 copies on tinted Normandy vellum, signed by the publisher (no. 44). Autographed copy with inscription on the title page: To Henri Parisot / who sometimes imitates a dancer pulling up her garter, his friend / Benjamin Péret / May 9, 1938 A translator from English and German, Henri Parisot (1908–1979) became associated with the Surrealists in the prewar years. In 1945, he contributed to Max-Pol Fouchet’s magazine *Fontaine* and founded the *L’Âge d’or* series, which was taken over in 1948 by Robert Marin Publishers, then by the bookstore *Les Pas perdus* until 1951. He revived the series in 1964 through Flammarion, publishing rare romantic, fantasy, and surrealist texts: works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Coleridge, and Leonora Carrington. In impeccable condition.

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Auction details

Henri Michaux, the Sven Pitseys Collection
Thursday, October 29
02:00 PM
35, rue La Fayette
75009 Paris, France

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