Mesens, Signed (7 results)

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, inscribed by the Author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third Printing. This is a Very Good + condition hard cover in a VG condition dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Penelope and Franklin Rosemont, artist and poet, writer, and poet, artist, historian, respectively, and and co-founders of the Chicago Surrealist Group. The pages are tanned. The jacket has some minor wrinkles. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Very God. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 226 pages. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition - Later Print Run. 226 pages. Dustjacket has slight wear/tiny cfreases to spine-ends and front lower corner, not price-clipped. Book has ink signature to centre of titles page with the word 'Cheers' writtten above it - it would appear to be that of George Melly. Light wear/light creases to spine-ends. Page-edges have age-yellowed, page-margins lightly yellowed. Pages very clean, sound and in nice condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. First thus, limited edition (this being no 54 of 250), full vellum with simple gilt titling to spine, laced-in ties to joints. Printed on hand-made paper "manufactured by an old process rediscovered by Aristide Maillol". Simple stiff card slipcase. 20.5 13.5cm, vi + 211p [1, collophon]. This copy has been signed by Aristide Maillol to the limitation page. Additionally, this copy belonged to Belgian artist and writer E L T Mesens, and given to him by Anton Zwemmer with a warm personal inscription to the ffep, "Pour mon vieux copain Edward Mesens en toute sympathie, A Zwemmer, May 28, 1946". In 1937, Zwemmer and Roland Penrose bought the London Gallery, and Mesens was appointed the gallery's director. Under Mesens' directorship and with Zwemmer's financial backing, it became the centrepoint for Surrealism in England with exhibitions of Joan Miro and Picasso, both in the gallery and in Zwemmer's shop. A Greek pastoral poem ascribed to Sophist Longus (4th or 5th century AD) which tells the story of the tender love of Daphnis and Chloe, the children of a goatherd and a shepherd. This being the George Thornley translation of 1657. This copy with 52 illustrations by Maillol, title page vignette, fifty within the text and one to the collophon, printed by Philippe Gonin of Paris. Condition: There is surface fading to the upper board's vellum, but otherwise this copy remains in very good solid condition. The pages are clean and the inner binding is secure. The slipcase has slightly dusty edges but is in solid shape. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Couverture Souple Illustrée. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale limitée à 300 exemplaires numérotés (celui-ci n° 76) après 50 hors commerce. Cet hommage de l' auteur à E.L.T. Mesens est orné d' illustrations (photos et dessins) en N & B et en hors-texte + une en couleurs. Avec un ENVOI autographe de Louis SCUTENAIRE aux amis Piron, proches du groupe surréaliste belge et collaborateurs dans la revue Temps Mêlés, sur la page de titre. 60 pages. Broché. Format : 11 x 27,5 cms. RARE. Signé par l'auteur.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Man Ray (illustrator). First English. Signed by Editor. Tight and sound copy, presentable. Wrapper not price clipped but lightly chipped at edges, rubbed and a little browned. No. 212 of 500 copies, hand made paper, uncut, 47 pages. Asa Briggs' copy. Signed by Briggs on the front turn in of the wrapper. Signed by both Penrose and Mesens on the limitation leaf at the rear of the book. Portrait sketch of Eluard in 1936 by Man Ray. Size: 8vo. Illustrator: Man Ray. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Signed by Editor. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24322.