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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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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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[BELLMER, Hans.] ZUERN,Unica. Sombre printemps. Burin original de Hans Bellmer. Paris: Belfond, 1970. Folio, 48pp. First edition, thus, one of 150 copies, of a total edition of 170, on Grand Velin de Arches with an original signed and numbered frontispiece etching by Hans Bellmer -- Zuern's lover during the mid-fifties -- and an additional signed and numbered print on Japon Nacre. Zuern's short story is translated from the German by Ruth Henry and Robert Valancay. The present work is published in the year of Zuern's death by suicide. A fine copy: loose sheets in publisher's silk-covered portfolio.
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CHIRICO, Giorgio de. Hebdomeros. New York: The Four Seasons Book Society, 1966. Octavo, 142pp. First American edition of Népo's famous surrealist novel, to which John Ashbery referredo as "probably...the finest [major work of Surrealist fiction]." Extremely rare Four Seasons Book Society printing of 500 copies, this one hors commerce." Near fine copy in very good dust jacket, some sunning, and moderate wear to edges and corners.
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ROUSSEL, Raymond. La Poussiere de soleils. Paris: Lemerre, 1926. Octavo, 237pp. First edition of this work for the theater by perhaps the most incomprehensible literary figure of all, with 24 color set illustrations of the lavishly-staged production. A large paper copy on Japon, one of an unspecified number of copies. A near fine copy in publisher’s printed wrappers. Inscribed by Roussel to madame Joannides in 1927 with a three-line quotation from the book.
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(VIAN, Boris.) Sullivan, Vernon (pseudonym). Et on tuera tous les affreux Paris: Les éditions du scorpion, 1948. Octavo, 200pp. First edition, an ordinary paper copy. Fine, in illustrated wraps.
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(VIAN, Boris.) Sullivan, Vernon (pseudonym). J'irai cracher sur vos tombes. Paris: Les éditions du scorpion, 1946. Octavo, 190pp. First edition, an ordinary paper copy. The first book by one of the unique voices in modern French literature, a jazz trumpeter and heir to the surrealist and pataphysical sense of play. J'irai cracher sur vos tombes was written in ten days to win a bet and published as the translation of the fabricated black American author "Vernon Sullivan," with an introduction by Vian. The work was soon banned as "objectionable foreign literature" (Randolph Runyon). Vian died of a heart condition while attending a preview of an unauthorized film version. Fine, in illustrated wraps.
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(VIAN, Boris.) Sullivan, Vernon (pseudonym). Les morts ont tous la même peau. Paris: Les éditions du scorpion, 1947. Octavo, 200pp. First edition, an ordinary paper copy. Fine, in illustrated wraps.
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