Feu Central de Benjamin Peret avec des Illustrations d'Yves Tanguy by Peret, Benjamin; Tanguy, Yves (Illus) - 1947

Paris, France: Collection le quadrangle, 1947. First Trade Edition. Paperback. Good. Quarto. 7.5 x 9.75 in. 101 pp. Complete, with four black & white plates by Yves Tanguy. Good in original lettered wrappers, binding is tender, minor losses to extremities due to age. From a limited edition of 800 numbered copies, this being number 236, from a total of 1030 copies. Text in French.

Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1970. Original printed wrappers. Light shelfwear. Very Good. Narrow 8vo. 74 pp. Illustrations par Yves Tanguy. No. 3 of Le Desordre Collection publiee sous la responsibilite de Jean Schuster. The title is prudently given as 'Les Rouilles encagees' on the front wrapper. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney, with his small name sticker at the bottom of the verso of the front cover.

Lans-en-Vercors, France: Locus Solus, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 12mo, 208pp, sewn wrappers (printed in Switzerland). The second number of one of the most impressive and influential English-language literary periodicals of the 1960s, published by wealthy amateur Harry Mathews. Includes two cut-ups of Rimbaud in translation by Burroughs and Corso (Schottlaender v4.C29; Shoaf III-20). Unmarked copy (appears unread), light wear.

1970. Paperback. Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

New York: View, 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good +/No. Early issue of this magazine devoted to American surrealism. Edited by Charles Henri Ford. Possibly the first issue to be printed in the non-newspaper format. A special issue with half of it printed in one direction and the other half printed upside down such that you have to flip it over to read it right side up. The only issue of this magazine we have seen in this format. Light fade at spine edge else a stury well-bound beautiful example.

Paris: Albert Skira, 1934. Fine. Albert Skira, Paris 1934, 24,5x31cm, broché. - Edition originale. Légers frottements sur le dos et en marges des plats, agréable état intérieur. Couverture illustrée par Marcel Duchamp. Contributions littéraires et picturales de Pierre Mabille, Brassaï, Paul Eluard, Ambroise Vollard, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Salvador Dali, Pierre Courthion, Louise de Vilmorin, André Breton, Pierre-Jean Jouve, Benjamin Péret, Gisèle Prassinos, Hans Bellmer, Léon-Paul Fargue, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Klee, Yves Tanguy, Wassily Kandinski, Paul Cézanne... [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

New York: VVV, 1944. First Edition. Fine. No.4, February 1944. 86, [12] pp. with plates. Illustrated red wraps with yapped edges. Basically a Fine copy, unsophisticated, very bright and clean, slight bump to head, tiny scratch to spine, offsetting to plate between pages 56 and 57. The final issue of the surrealist journal, featuring work by Aime Cesaire, Andre Breton, Philip Lamantia, Benjamin Peret, Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Wilfredo Lam, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and more. Cover illustration by Chilean artist Roberto Matta.

Paris.: Collection le Quadrangle. K éditeur., 1947.. Original publisher's printed wrappers as issued: a grey jacket with illustration after Tanguy in white with excised section to front cover and beneath a yellow patterned wrapper with printed text in red (see below). . 4to. (248 x 192 mm).. Half-title, title with copyright verso and Péret's verse illustrated with 4 hors-texte phototypie plates reproducing gouaches by Tanguy, 'Table', justification and final leaf with achevé d'imprimer; inserted loose (as issued) is Tanguy's original etching (238 x 188 mm). An excellent copy of the édition de tête.From the edition limited to 1,030 numbered copies, with this copy one of 30 copies from the édition de tête on pur fil Johannot numbered in Roman numerals and with Tanguy's original etching.'Feu Central' collects Péret's verse collections 'Immortelle Maladie' (1924), 'Dormir, Dormir dans les Pierres' (1927), 'Je Sublime' (1935), 'Un Point C'est Tout' (1946) and 'A Tatons'; all, save 'A Tatons',… Read More