Poetry
Rare poetry books : first editions, manuscripts and inscribed copies. From Baudelaire all the way to surrealists, a selection pleasing bibliophiles and verse lovers.
73 works
Paul Eluard & Jean-Pierre Jouffroy
Au rendez-vous allemand
Paris, Camino Verde, 1999.One of 115 copies on Arches paper$960
Paul Éluard
Les amis II
[Le Cannet], 19 janvier 1937.Composé chez Char, pour Les Mains libres$3,000
Edouard Manet & Camille Corot
Sonnets et eaux-fortes
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1869 (December 20, 1868).The first painters' anthology in illustrated book history$10,800
René Char & Nicolas de Staël
Arrière-histoire du poème pulvérisé
Paris, Jean Hugues, (April 25) 1953.With Nicolas de Staël's color lithograph$3,600
Guillaume Apollinaire
La Rome des Borgia
Paris, Bibliothèque des curieux, 1913.First printing, signed inscription$1,920
René Char & Pablo Picasso
Les Transparents
Alès, PAB, (March) 1967.Extra cartalégraphies, one inscribed by Picasso to Char$14,400
Stéphane Mallarmé
Le Tombeau de Théophile Gautier
Paris, Lemerre, 1873.China-paper copy with Mallarmé's “Toast funèbre”$2,400
René Char
Les Cloches sur le coeur
Paris, Le Rouge et le Noir, (February 20) 1928.Michel Rousselot's copy, with autograph poem$8,400
René Char & Joan Miro
Le Chien de coeur
Paris, G.L.M., (January) 1969.Deluxe issue on gray vellum with Miró's signed lithograph$10,800
René Char & Alberto Giacometti
Poèmes des deux années
Paris, GLM, (February) 1955.Giacometti's first collaboration with Char$14,400
René Char
L’action de la justice est éteinte
Paris, Éditions surréalistes, (July 30) 1931.One of 5 deluxe copies printed in green, inscribed to Pierre Unik$4,800
Guillaume Apollinaire
Chantre
Paris, Éditions du Capricorne, 2003.A striking graphic realization of Apollinaire's famous "Chantre." This poem, which appeared in Alcools in 1913, consists of a single line, said to concentrate every sonorous musicality of the French language: “et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines.”$360
René Char
L’action de la justice est éteinte
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, July 30, 1931.A moving provenance: a friend from the Sorgue, murdered by the militia$1,200
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