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MAGRITTE.
by TORCZYNER Harry
New York,: Abrams,, 1977.. In-4 p., tela editoriale, sovracoperta, pp. 277, con 527 ill. in b.n. e a colori nel testo. Catalogo antologico del grande artista belga (1898-1967). In ottimo stato.
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A$50.50
Dreams and Everyday Life: André Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS and the Seven Cities of Cibola
by Rosemont, Penelope
Chicago: Charles H Kerr, 2008. Paperback. viii, 248p., very good paperback, inscribed by the author to radical lawyer Dennis Cunningham. Sixties Series.
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A$55.30
Hans Bellmer. The Anatomy of Anxiety
by [Bellmer, Hans]. Sue Taylor
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000. First edition. xxii, 310 pp. Full brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Some minor rubbing to lower jacket at spine, else a fine copy. Profusely illustrated.
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A$197.51
![Le Surréalisme révolutionnaire: Revue internationale bimestrielle [Poster]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/383/276/1550276383.0.b.jpg)
Le Surréalisme révolutionnaire: Revue internationale bimestrielle [Poster]
by [Passeron, René]
Copenhague [Copenhagen]: J. Chr. Sorensen & Co, 1948. Ephemera. Very good. A poster advertising subscriptions to a post-war periodical, Le Surréalisme révolutionnaire, which successfully published just a single issue. The poster is a two-color lithograph measuring 18-5/8 by 24-7/8 inches, with an applied label with a brief chronology of Surrealism culminating in the publication of this journal. According to Yale's Beinecke Library, which has some archival material related to the journal, the poster...
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A$2,370.15
![The Blood of the Air [one of fifty signed copies in boards]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/028/525/1547525028.0.b.jpg)
The Blood of the Air [one of fifty signed copies in boards]
by Lamantia, Philip
San Francisco: The Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First edition. [12], 45, [6], pp. Gray paste-paper boards over green cloth backstrip, lettered and ruled in gilt. Slightest rubbing to corners, else fine. One of fifty numbered copies in boards, signed by the author. The uncommon limited edition of this collection. As a teenager Lamantia corresponded with Breton and published some of his first poems in Charles Henri Ford's View. Later associated with the Beats (he was on the bill at the famous 1955 Six...
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A$1,185.08
![The Poet Assassinated and other Stories [signed by Padgett]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/502/232/1343232502.0.b.jpg)
The Poet Assassinated and other Stories [signed by Padgett]
by Apollinaire, Guillaume; Ron Padgett, trans
Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1985. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First complete British edition of Padgett's translations of Apollinaire's stories. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. 139 pp. Book near fine with some rubbing at the head of the spine; jacket a bit toned with some minor edgewear, particularly at the spine. Signed by Padgett on the title-page.
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A$158.01
Picasso, graphic art
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957. Pamphlet. 28p., 5.25x7.5 inches; spine slightly toned, else in very good condition. Illustrated booklet of Picasso's lithographs.
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A$26.86
Dali by Dali
by Dali, Salvador [Translated by Eleanor R. Morse]
New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc. 1970. 12mo [approx 14x20cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has a couple of small chips to top edge & is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with colour reproductions. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 156 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$30.00
The Spirit of Surrealism
by Henning, Edward B
Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. purple cloth. Fine in rubbed dust wrapper. 186 pages. 9 x 9". 181 illustrations, thirty-one in color.
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A$55.30
Vom Herzen der Dinger: Zum Wesen des Surrealismus
by Fischer-Harriehausen, Hermann
Berlin: Verlag AmBEATion / Randlage, 2001. Paperback. 64p., french-fold wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, illus., very good condition. Text in German. One of 700 copies. Randlägige Wissenschaft / Band 8.
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A$31.60
Le Triskèle. Collages, cravates, gravures, contourages, dessins et peintures, timbres-poste et objets surréalistes d'aujourd'hui.
by LE TRISKÈLE
Paris: Le Triskèle., 1978. First edition. Poster. Very Good. Poster. 330x440mm. Folded twice. B/w illust. Works by Abeille, Baron, Bédouin, Bounoure, Kervorkian, Halina, Hallart, Lagarde, Lebel, Mansour, Télémaque, Terrossian etc. A little rubbed and creased.
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A$55.05
Max Ernst
by ERNST, Max (Brühl, 1891 - Parigi, 1976),
Stoccolma: Edizione a cura del Museo, , 1969. Brossura (wrappers). Molto buono (Very Good). Malningar, collage, frottage, tackningar, grafik, bocker, skulpturer 1917-1969. Catalogo della mostra tenutasi presso il Moderna Museet, Stoccolma, 13 settembre - 2 novembre 1969. Cronologia della vita e delle opere. Numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero, di cui alcune a piena pagina. Catalogo delle 219 opere esposte. Testo in svedese. 8vo (cm 24x24,5). pp. 84. Molto buono (Very Good). .
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A$50.50
Dali
by Larkin, David [Editor]
New York: Ballantine Books. 1974. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Covers age-toned. Illustrated with 40 full-page colour plates. With an introduction by J.G. Ballard. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated. . 2nd Printing. Softcover.
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A$14.00
![[ARABIC SURREALISM - POSTCOLONIAL ART HISTORY] Le désir libertaire: publication de l'Association Arabie-sur-Seine [The libertarian desire: publication of the Association Arabia on the Seine]. 2 issues (of a total of 3 published in the second series), with the subtitles: "SUBobJECTIVITÉS" (Sub-objectivity) and "L'amnésie administrée" (Administered Amnesia)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/574/869/1600869574.0.b.jpg)
[ARABIC SURREALISM - POSTCOLONIAL ART HISTORY] Le désir libertaire: publication de l'Association Arabie-sur-Seine [The libertarian desire: publication of the Association Arabia on the Seine]. 2 issues (of a total of 3 published in the second series), with the subtitles: "SUBobJECTIVITÉS" (Sub-objectivity) and "L'amnésie administrée" (Administered Amnesia)
Two of three issues of the remarkable neo-avant-garde Arab-French exile magazine, which opposes Islamism and Arab nationalism under the banner of surrealism. The jouirnal was founded in 1975 by Abdul Kader El Janabi, who was born in Baghdad, emigrated to the USA in the 1960s and has lived in France since 1972. He soon met Georges Henein. The meeting was decisive. El Janabi saw Henein (who founded a Surrealist group in Cairo in 1938) as an embodiment of Breton. After Henein died, shortly after their...
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A$1,346.56
De Paris a San Francisco, Fort Mason Center avec le concours du Centre National des Arts Plastiques (F.I.A.C.R.E.). Premiere parution d'une publication editee par: Figuration Critique
by Figuration Critique
Paris: the artists, 1985. Unpaginated, upwards of two hundred pages, profuse uncaptioned sepia reproductions by various artists. 6x8.5 inch oblong wraps, a very good copy.
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A$18.96
Images of Sowers in Time / Imagenes de sembradores en el tiempo. Jadite Galleries, October/Octubre 18-31, 1990
by Blanco, Dionisio
New York City: Printing by Amigo del Hogar for Jadite Galleries, 1990. Pamphlet. 8p., color exhibit photos and text reproduced on glossy white cardstock with a b&w portrait photo of artist, a 10x8 inch pamphlet bound in paste-fastened decorated wraps. Texts in Spanish and English, including Blanco's incomprehensible personal statement, where he traces influences from Brueghel the Elder to Rene Magritte.
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A$23.70
Vilem Kriz: Photographs
by Kriz, Vilem
Portland, OR: S. K. Josefsberg Studio, 1979. First edition, hardcover issue. Hardcover. Fine. One of the better monographs devoted to the Czech-American surrealist photographer. Limited to 250 hardcover copies (out of an edition of 2,000). 65 pages; 26 duo-tone plates; introduction by Rod Slemmons; professional history of the photographer as an appendix. First edition (first printing, hardcover issue). Fine in gray cloth boards. No jacket, as issued.
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A$56.88
A New Pope at Avignon: or, Laurel & Hardy Slay the Dragon.
by LYLE, JOHN
Sidmouth: Transformaction., 1971. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 3 sheet folded supplement 'A New Pope at Avignon: or, Laurel & Hardy Slay the Dragon' discussing an American Surrealist publication 'NO SURREALISM' apparently an attack on John Lyle by Conroy Maddox, Franklin Rosemont and associates.
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A$68.81
British Surrealism, fifty years on.
by SURREALISM
London: The Mayor Gallery., 1986. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Original stiff printed yellow wraps. 72 pages. [compiled by Andrew Murray ; introduction and chronology by Michel Remy]. Cpovers a little rubbed, stamp of The Mayor Gallery to title-page.
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A$55.05
Playing Chess with the Heart. Beatrice Wood at 100
by Wood, Beatrice; Marlene Wallace, photography
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. First edition. 72 pp. Tan cloth, lettered in purple on the spine and decorated in blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Photographs of Wood interspersed with quotations by her reflecting the wisdom of decades. Signed by Wood on the title-page and dated Ojai 1994. Fine copy.
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A$237.02
![Defensa de la poesia (Tres conferencias leidas en la universidad de Chile, el 7 de junio de 1939) [with] Defensa de la Mandragora](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/185/643/1258643185.0.b.2.jpg)
Defensa de la poesia (Tres conferencias leidas en la universidad de Chile, el 7 de junio de 1939) [with] Defensa de la Mandragora
by Arenas, Braulio, Teofilo Cid and Enrique Gomez [-Correa]
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mandrágora, 1939. First Edition. Ephemera. Near Fine. [12] pages. Quarto (7.25" x 10") pamphlet with the single sheet, "Defensa de la Mandragora" laid in. A key document in the Chilean surrealist movement and of Latin American poetry. The three main Latin American surrealist writers-el grupo de la Mandragora-lay out their positions on poetry and politics, aligning themselves with Andre Breton and Salvador Dali in Europe and Vicente Huidobro of Chile. The three lectures...
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A$948.06
![Roland Penrose. The Friendly Surrealist [inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/430/305/1449305430.0.b.jpg)
Roland Penrose. The Friendly Surrealist [inscribed]
by [Penrose, Roland]. Antony Penrose
Munich: Prestel, 2001. First edition. 192 pp. Dark blue cloth boards, spine lettered in light blue, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to upper edge of rear jacket panel, slight yellowing to page edges. Profusely illustrated. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to Lyn [Keinholz, Los Angeles arts advocate].
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A$237.02
Magritte: Ideas and Images
by Torczyner, Harry
Harry N Abrams, Inc;, 1979. Oversized Hardcover. . As new condition./As new dust jacket. . Color and B&W illustrations Book is as described - NO defects or marks of any kind. A very nice copy.
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A$76.73
First Papers of Surrealism
by Duchamp, Marcel, and André Breton
New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 1942. First edition. [49] pp. Stapled wrappers designed by Duchamp, cover punched with five holes, as issued. Corners a bit rubbed, abrasion to lower edge of front cover and first several leaves, minor edgewear. Catalog of an exhibition held at 451 Madison Avenue, the Whitelaw Reid Mansion, in New York, October 14 to November 7, 1942. It was the first major show of Surrealist art in America and included work by Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Yves...
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A$1,975.12
![Max Ernst / [text by] Ian Turpin](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/087/380/1147380087.0.b.1.jpg)
Max Ernst / [text by] Ian Turpin
by Ernst, Max (1891-1976)
[London] New York : Phaidon ; Dutton, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 16 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. Subject; Ernst, Max 1891-1976.
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A$20.76
