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Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés

155 - A set of 14 paperback volumes, one of which bears the author’s autograph signature.

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€400 - 500

Sale fees

28.8%

A set of 14 paperback volumes, one of which bears the author’s autograph signature. - Guillaume APOLLINAIRE. *Le flâneur des deux rives*. Paris: Nouvelle Société d’Éditions, 1945. In-4, loose-leaf, in a folder and slipcase. - Marc CHAGALL. *Ma vie*. Paris, Stock, 1931. In-12. Illustrated by the author. Preface by André Salmon. One of 110 copies printed on pure-fiber vellum (no. 132). Autograph signature by the author. Cover and spine stained and torn. - Youki DESNOS. *Les confidences de Youki*. Paris, Fayard, 1957. In-8. First edition illustrated by Foujita and Robert Desnos. - Paul ELUARD. *Poésie et vérité 1942*. Paris, Éditions de La main à la plume, April 3 [September] 1942. In-16. First edition, containing the first publication of the famous poem “Liberté.” - Paul ELUARD. *Au rendez-vous allemand*. Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1944. 8vo. Illustrated with a portrait by Picasso. - *Habitude de la poésie*. Volumes 1 and 2. Paris, GLM, 1937. 2 vols., in-12, publisher’s cardboard binding. A reprint, published the same year as the first edition, of 11 poems by Paul Éluard, Valentine Penrose, Fernand Marc, Guy Lévis-Mano, Jean Le Louët, Roger Lannes, Tristan Tzara, Adrien Copperie, Pierre Robin, Maxime Alexandre, Maurice Blanchard, and Léon Kochnitzky. - LAUTRÉAMONT. Complete Works. Paris, G. L. M., 1938. In-8. One of 1,000 copies on bibliophile vellum (no. 791). - Fernand LÉGER. F. Léger. Drawings and Gouaches 1909–1955. Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, 1958. In-12. First edition of this exhibition catalog with a preface by Maurice Jardot. Cover illustrated with an original lithograph by Fernand Léger. - A Short Poetic Anthology of Surrealism. Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934. First edition. Introduction by Georges Hugnet. - Maurice RAPIN. Who Is Maurice Rapin? Interviews with Christian Bussy. Liège, Yellow Now for Temps Mêlés, 1977. First edition. - Robert REY. *Quinzet*. Paris, Éditions du Vieux Colombier, 1944. In-12. Included: - Sarane ALEXANDRIAN. *Surrealist Art*. Paris, Hazan, 1969. In-8. - José PIERRE. Surrealism: A Pocket Dictionary. Paris, Hazan, 1969. In-8, publisher’s cardboard binding.

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Auction details

20th-Century Art—including the Catherine and Raymond M. Collection
Friday, November 27
01:30 PM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés +33 1 47 70 40 00 contact@beaussantlefevre.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 120,000 lots published

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