Glossaire, j’y serre mes gloses

Name: Glossaire, j'y serre mes gloses
SKU: 28859
Price: 3000 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Michel Leiris & André Masson

Éditions de la Galerie Simon, (August 9) 1939.

1 vol. (120 x 170 mm) of 59 p. and [1] f. Sanded gray calf decorated with rounded forms, a pattern of horizontal fillets in palladium at the borders, title in orange Oeser leather, doublure of the same sanded calf, orange velvet endleaves, original wrappers and spine preserved, matching chemise and slipcase (binding signed by François Brindeau, 2003).

First edition. 16 lithographs in black by André Masson, including one for the cover, one double-page, and two out-of-text. One of 90 copies on vergé d'Arches paper (no. 84). The copy is signed by the author and the illustrator at the limitation. Signed presentation inscription: “À monsieur Yves Poupard-[Lieussou], avec toute la sympathie de Michel Leiris.”

In 1924, at the request of Antonin Artaud, then director of the Bureau des recherches surréalistes, Michel Leiris began his “glossaire du merveilleux,” the first fragments of which appeared in La Révolution surréaliste. It would take nearly fifteen years for the project to become this book, made up of 835 definitions forming a series of linguistic fictions, at once erudite, playful and poetic.

Published by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the volume is one of the very few of the publisher’s books to include captions for its illustrations, offering readers a genuine key to interpretation. It is also the first paginated book published by Kahnweiler. The encounter between Leiris’s glosses and Masson’s lithographs makes this a dialogue between friends, in which text and image achieve a singular harmony, further enhanced by a fine binding by François Brindeau.

Skira 245; Hugues 28; Chapon p. 285; Saphire & Cramer 13; Galland p. 971.

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