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APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. La Rome des Borgia. Paris: Biblioteque des Curieux, 1914. Octavo, 301pp. First edition of this work actually written by Apollinaire’s close friend René Dalize (nom-de-plume of Renée Dupuy), to which Apollinaire affixed his name as author as a favor to Dalize. Authorship notwithstanding, a presentation copy from Apollinaire to another close friend, Henri Duvernois, whom he came to know around the time of publication. In 1916, when Apollinaire underwent trepanning for the head-wound he’d received in combat, Duvernois nursed him during his recuperation from the procedure, "À mon cher Henri Duvernois, son admirateur Guillaume Apollinaire." Wraps illustrated with a licentious painting of one of the Borgia's infamous orgies. Something of a surrealist, or dadaist, object, and surely one of an extremely small number of copies that would have been inscribed by Apollinaire. In addition, a superb association copy.
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(ARP, Hans.) HUELSENBECK, Richard. Die Newyorker Kantaten/Cantates New-Yorkaises. Mit Sechs Zeichnungen von Hans Arp. New York and Paris: Berggruen/European Art Documentary, 1952. Octavo, 51pp. First edition of this latter-day collaboration between these founding members of Dada. A bilingual edition printing Huelsenbeck's poems in German and facing French, with six woodblock illustrations by Arp. Very faint diagonal crease to lower forecorner of text, else about a near fine copy in publisher's plain grey wrappers and very good or better illustrated tan dust jacket, the latter showing light edgewear. Inscribed by Huelsenbeck in New York in 1953.
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BATAILLE, George. L'Erotisme. Paris: Les Editions des Minuit, 1957. Octavo, 306pp. in wraps. 1st edition.
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BATAILLE, Georges. Eponine. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1949. Small octavo wraps. First edition, ordinary issue, of the first separate appearance of this section from Bataille's novel, L'abbé C. (1950). A very good+ or better, partially unopened copy in red printed wraps with rubbing to spine-folds.
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BATAILLE, Georges. L'Abbe C. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1950. Octavo, 228pp. First edition, the issue on ordinary paper, of this novel by the impresario of intellectualized perversion. Text a bit toned, but a very good or better copy in publisher's printed wrappers. This copy inscribed by Bataille (to Georges-Albert Astre) on the half-title. With the publisher's original printed wrap-around band reading, appropriately enough: "L'exces de joie."
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BATAILLE, Georges. L'Abbe C. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1950. Small octavo, 225pp. First edition, the issue on ordinary paper (there were 533 numbered copies on special papers). Bataille's last major work of fiction. A presentation copy, inscribed by Bataille to Maurice Saillet. Text somewhat browned due to poor quality paper, otherwise a near fine copy in publisher's white wrappers printed in blue.
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BATAILLE, Georges. Le Haine de la poesie. Paris: Minuit, 1947. Octavo, 180pp. First edition, the issue on ordinary paper. Composed of hesitating narrations, philosophical and confessional fragments, and versified invocations to chance, this work continues Bataille's effort to examine and to open himself to extreme states of being through all the means available. Translated as The Impossible (City Lights). Fine in salmon printed wraps. This copy inscribed by Bataille at half-title, "a Robert S[G]uiette/en souvenir d'un accueil/que je ne pouriez oublier/Georges Bataille."
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BATAILLE, Georges. Les monnaies des grands mogols au cabinet des medailles. Paris: J. Florange, Editeur, (1927). Quarto, 32pp. + 3pp. illustrations. 10"h x 7 7/8"w. Offprint from the scholarly journal Arethuse (Nos. 13-14, October 1926-January 1927) of this early article on Mongolian coins, Bataille's second or third separately published piece, dating from just prior to the would-be numismatist 's metamorphosis into an oracle of erotic excess and sacrificial violence, antagonist to Andre Breton, defender of Nietzsche against the fascists, and all-around ecrivain maudite (L'anus solaire, published at the behest of Bataille's psychoanalyst, would also appear in 1927, illustrated by Andre Masson). This might be the last text in the voluminous Bataille corpus not to address his fundamental concerns -- though, according to Denis Hollier, the present work does hint at such in some digressions about Mongol sovereigns. Very near fine in printed green wraps. Exceedingly rare.
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BATAILLE, Georges. L'Experience interieure. Paris: Gallimard, 1943. Octavo, 252pp. First edition of this major work in which Bataille locates all human transcentendal potential in the very nature of the subject as a locus of communication. Very good or better and partly unopened in publisher's printed wraps. A scarce wartime publication.
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(BATAILLE, Georges, trans.) CHESTOV, Léon. L'idée de bien chez Tolstoi et Nietzsche. Paris: Editions du Siècle, 1925. Octavo. First French edition of the great Russian existentialist philosopher's study of the idea of good in Tolstoy and Nietzsche, translated by Georges Bataille and T. Beresovski-Chestov. Introduction by Jules de Gaultier. Chestov's work is an early and independent example of the existentialist trend which has so profoundly marked the course of philosophy in our century. It was through Chestov's work that Bataille first encountered Nietzsche; Bataille's idiosyncratic Nietzschianism in turn had a profound impact on a later generation of French thinkers, including Derrida and Foucault. Foxing to page edges and lightly to a couple pages, else very good+ in wraps and publisher's glassine. Inscribed by Chestov.
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