Ducasse Isadore (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. 284p paperback, tan card covers with laminated paper jacket, good condition, light wear to jacket edges and spine, binding intact, marks and wear to endpapers, light pencil marks to some early pages, otherwise free from marks and notes, a good copy from a Cambridge college, a little scruffy on the outside but many pages still uncut and untouched Language: French.

275 p 20 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Bien.Trad. Julio Gómez de la Serna. Pról. de Ramón Gómez de la Serna.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book.

Condition: Good. 4to. 24 pp. Stapled Wraps, Soft Cover. Fine. Color Illustrations & Plates. Features works by David Parrish, Tom Blackwell, Richard Estes, Richard McLean, et al.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 47, [1] pp., 8vo, stapled card wrapper. Very good copy overall; contents fine, wrapper dust and finger-soiled.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Pp. [ii], 107-118, [2], 8vo, stapled card wrapper. A short-lived little magazine that ran for only ten numbers (May 1936-Autumn 1937). "Published from the Arts Café, No. 1 Parton St, London, this was one of the magazines responsible for widening the knowledge of surrealist literature in Britain in the 1930s" (Miller & Price A41). Very good copy, with mild age-toning at the wrapper edges and a short light corner crease.

282 p 22 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica con solapas. Estado de conservación: Muy bien.

236 p 20 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica con muy leves huellas de uso. Estado de conservación: Bien.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition signed by Marcel Jean. Commentary by Marcel Jean and Arpad Mezei. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 414 pages. The complete works of French poet Lautreamont (1846-1870). Inscription on half title page reads "Pour Eva et Richard Brooks -- / Avec ceci, chers amis, vous deviendrez / imbattables en litterature comparee (voyez pp. 409-411) / avec toute l'amitie de / Marcel Jean." Marcel Jean (1900-1993) studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris before becoming a central figure of the Surrealist group in Paris in 1932. Arpad Mezei (19021998) was a Hungarian art theoretician and psychologist . In the 1940s he was co-founder of the Europai Iskola. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edges of covers have a moisture stain that did not affect the inside edges--visible in photos. Contents page visible in photo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, original wrappers bound in full calf boards, top edge gilt, 123(v)pp. No. 68 of 150 copies on antique paper, from an edition of 300 numbered copies. Selected poems from Lautréamont's proto-surrealist classic, translated into Czech by Jindrich Horejsí with Karel Teige's and Philippe Soupault's collaboration. The first illustrated edition to reach publication, with twelve 2-color lithographs by Jindrich Styrský. It includes a 30-page postscript by Teige who also designed the cover, typography and plates. The book was released in the early spring of 1929 and sold out before it was censored by authorities a few months later. The belated censorship and confiscation attempts resulted in an uproar. This is a landmark publication and a fine document of the creative ferment of the Czech avant-garde. It signaled a shift of focus in the movement of the Poetism spearheaded by Teige, Toyen and Nezval in the Devetsil movement to embracing deeper psychological and mythic undercurrents. As a visual statement it comprises some of Styrský's finest artwork to appear in book form. The imagery and execution herald a shift in Styrský's work from his Artificialism he had developed a few years earlier to a definite incorporation of surrealist and chance elements in his highly individual approach which would inform and characterize the artist's output for the remainder of his life. Notwithstanding the debt of the artist to the poet, the images pay no direct relationship to the text. Styrský wrote at this time, The graphic description of verbal metaphors is distracting to true lovers of poetry. Maldoror's author figured prominently in tyrský's psyche and he returned to Lautréamont's themes again and again. In 1939 he stated that Lautréamont was the greatest of modern poets. The entire book and contents fine, very crisp. Worldcat finds this in 10 North American libraries. Refs: Teige, ed: ReD 3, 1929-1931, No.1 pp. 3-5; No.2 pp4-48; Byd ovská & Srp: Jindrich Styrský, 2007 pp. 159-164, inter alia; Lenka Bydzovská: Lautréamont vu par Jindrich Styrský, in Revue des études slaves, 74-1, 2002.