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André Breton
Fata Morgana
Buenos Aires, Éditions des Lettres françaises, (July 10) 1942.An exceptional René Char copySold
André Breton
« Les Apôtres »
[S.l., 1946].Autograph poemSold
André Breton
La Vérité sur le procès de Moscou
Paris, imp. Beresniak, 1936.“As mere intellectuals, we declare that we hold the Moscow verdict and its execution to be abominable and inexpiable...”Breton here takes up the defense of Leon Trotsky at a time when suspicion and mistrust of the USSR had spread through the Surrealist group. In contrast to the French communists, who presented the Moscow trials as…Sold
André Breton
[L.a.s.] à Janine Kahn sa future épouse
Thursday, August 25, 1921.In June 1920, André Breton met Simone Kahn in the Jardin du Luxembourg, in the company of Théodore Fraenkel and Bianca Maklès; a second meeting followed a month later, on 9 July 1920. Simone confided to her cousin: “Today was a good day. I saw André Breton with Fraenkel and Aragon. It is the second…Sold
André Breton
Manifeste du surréalisme
Paris, Éditions du Sagittaire, (October 15) 1924.Sold
André Breton
Nadja. Illustré de 44 photographies par Man Ray.
Paris, Éditions de la NRF, (May 25) 1928.Nadja is Breton's major work, the only one of his books to be so thoroughly revised and expanded for its second edition. The book is haunted by two women, each of whom shaped its composition in her own way.The first is the woman whose name is forever inscribed at the pinnacle of Surrealism. Breton encountered…Sold
André Breton
Nadja
Paris, Gallimard, (May 25) 1928.In this celebrated autobiographical narrative, Breton gives a clinical account of the nine days he spent, from Monday 4 to Wednesday 13 October 1926, with Léona Delcourt, known by the name she gave herself, Nadja — “because in Russian it is the beginning of the word hope, and because it is only the beginning.” The…Sold
André Breton
Manifeste du surréalisme – Poisson soluble
Paris, Éditions du Sagittaire, (October 15) 1924.Poulenc's copy, inscribed by BretonSold
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