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L'Immaculée Conception

L'Immaculée Conception by BRETON, ANDRÉ; ÉLUARD, PAUL

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
L'Immaculée Conception
Author
BRETON, ANDRÉ; ÉLUARD, PAUL
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Paris: Surréalistes, 1930. First edition. Original wrappers. Good. FIRST EDITION ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ANDRÉ BRETON. Written within the span of only three weeks during the summer of 1930, André Breton and Paul Éluard's L'Immaculée Conception is a quintessential example of the Surrealist practice of automatic writing. While Surrealism today may at first evoke painters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí, Surrealism was demarcated by its founders, namely Breton, as an experiment as much, if not more, in language and literature as the visual arts. Thus, the process of automatic writing which he developed across his lifetime sits at the heart of the first Surrealist Manifesto (1924)-and L'Immaculée Conception represents a pinnacle automatic text executed by two of the major Surrealist vanguards themselves. In a 1961 interview with Judith Jasmin, Breton maintained that the mission of Surrealism has been the same since 1924, and that Surrealism continues to be defined as: "automatisme psychique pur, par lequel on se proposait d'exprimer, par écrit ou de tout autre manière, le véritable mécanisme de la pensée. Il s'agissait d'une dicté de la pensée en dehors de tout contrôle-et ceci était très important-de tout contrôle exercé par la raison et en dehors de toute préoccupation esthétique ou morale." (Breton, 1961) [pure psychic automation, by which one proposes to express, in writing or any other manner, the true mechanism of thought. It was a dictation of thought beyond any control-and this was very important-any control exercised by reason and beyond any aesthetic or moral concern.] Barring re-reading and editing, the authors consequently forbade themselves "d'apprecier encours de route le produit de cette activité" [from appreciating, en route, the product of this activity] (Breton, 1961). At times losing "syntactical clarity" and "grammatical intelligibility", L'Immaculée Conception interrogates what it means to be human and divine and tackles sacred Christian doctrine in a meeting of Breton's and Éluard's characteristic wits (Conley, p. 607). Skirting all censorship and demonstrating an intelligence defiantly detached from the human faculties of reason and logic, L'Immaculée Conception reinforces the Surrealist style of surprise and inverted expectation. This first edition copy is signed by André Breton to Monique Fong (a.k.a. Monique Fong Wust) with the following inscription: "'Le rosier d'écume de mer' à Monique Fong avec les affectueux compliments d'André Breton" ["'The sea-foam rose' to Monique Font with the affectionate compliments of André Breton"] In this personalised message, Breton quotes from the penultimate chapter's final section, "L'idée du devenir": "Si c'était à recommencer, si c'était à recommencer... Le rosier d'écume de mer est debout à côté de moi dans ce portrait poétiquement définitif" (Breton and Éluard, p. 110) [If I had to star over, if I had to start over... the sea-foam rose stands at my side in this poetically-definitive portrait.] A Surrealist writer and intellectual closely connected with many other prominent champions of the movement, Fong Wust first met Breton at a party hosted by Claude Lévi-Strauss and would later maintain a lifelong correspondence with Marcel Duchamp-documenting much of the movement's aims, ambitions and successes. The book is number 179 of 2,000 copies printed on hand-made paper from Sorel-Moussel. Formerly "la véritable capitale du papier" [the true capital of paper], Sorel-Moussel is a village in northern France renown for its paper mills constructed in 1814 and operated by famed printer Firmin Didot, which ceased production in the later half of the twentieth century (Cathelinais, p. 5). References: André Breton, "Le sel de la semaine", interview by Judith Jasmin, Radio-Canada (27 February, 1961), C. Cathelinais, "L'ancienne papeterie devenue entrepôt abritera une turbine électrique", Paris-Normande (26 February, 1987) Katharine Conley, "Writing the Virgin's Body: Breton and Eluard's Immaculée Conception", The French Review 67.4 (1994), 600-608 BRETON, ANDRÉ and ÉLUARD, PAUL. L'Immaculée Conception. Paris: Surréalistes, 1930. Quarto (7¼ x 9¼ inch; 184 x 235 mm), number 179 of 2,000 copies printed on papier impondérable hand-made in Sorel-Moussel; pp. 130; originals wrappers, glassine; housed in a custom presentation box. Front wrapper detached (but held snugly under glassine), text block with splits. Fading to spine and perimeter of wrapper. RARE SIGNED, AND WITH AN INTERESTING ASSOCIATION.
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Two autograph letters signed, to S.J. Perelman. Wellfleet, 11 December 1958; and Paris, 20 December 1963 by Wilson, Edmund

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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Two autograph letters signed, to S.J. Perelman. Wellfleet, 11 December 1958; and Paris, 20 December 1963
Author
Wilson, Edmund
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Two autograph letters signed,2 pages. In the first letter Wilson writes of the poet John Wain, who had just been visiting and "is a mad admirer" of Perelman's. Wilson is reading "The Most of S.J. Perelman," and doesn't understand how SJP "having been born, I find, nine years later than I --- [knows] about Elbert Hubbard, Chimmie Fadden, & The Japanese Schoolboy" and if Perelman's readers recognize the references. The second letter notes SJP's recent pieces in The New Yorker. Perelman's answers are published in Don't Tread on Me, p. 206-207, and 220-221.
The Grapes of Wrath (Original teleplay script for an unproduced television film)

The Grapes of Wrath (Original teleplay script for an unproduced television film) by John Steinbeck (novelist); Christopher Knopf (screenwriter); Nunnally Johnson (playwright)

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The Grapes of Wrath (Original teleplay script for an unproduced television film)
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John Steinbeck (novelist); Christopher Knopf (screenwriter); Nunnally Johnson (playwright)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. First Draft script for an unproduced television movie. Based on John Steinbeck's 1939 novel of the same title and adapted from the screenplay by Nunnally Johnson for the 1940 film. During the Great Depression and dustbowl era, a family of tenant farmers living and suffering in Oklahoma and forced to move west, abandoning their home. They end up in California, with many other "Okies" like them, searching for a new future. Peter Knopf is a Emmy-nominated writer, best known for his work on "Posse" (1975), "Peter and Paul" (1981), and "Not My Kid" (1985). Set in Oklahoma and California. Green titled wrappers, noted as First Draft on the front wrapper, dated April 12, 1974. Title page present, dated April 12, 1974, noted as First Draft, with credits for novelist Steinbeck, screenwriter Knopf, screenwriter Johnson, and producer Stanley Hough. 131 leaves, with last page of text numbered 127. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.
The Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment

The Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment by YOLTON, JOHN W., ED

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The Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment
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YOLTON, JOHN W., ED
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
[Cambridge, Mass.]: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. First American edition; 8vo; pp. ix, [1], 581; illustrations throughout; fine copy in original pictorial jacket featuring the painting, "Une soirée chez Mme Geoffrin.
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Baedeker's Belgium and Holland including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. by Baedeker, Karl.

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Baedeker's Belgium and Holland including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
Author
Baedeker, Karl.
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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16mo (4 1/4" x 6 1/2"), red cloth, gilt title on front cover, illustrated with maps, 489 pp. Some slight wear at extremities, minor aging, a crisp and bright copy and very good plus overall. Karl Baedeker (1801-1959) was born in Essen, and attended Heidelberg University. His family was involved in the publishing and bookselling business, and around 1828 he entered the travel guide business. Baedeker created a different kind of travel book that opened up tourism for a new class of travelers, by guiding the tourist to the principal attractions in a country or area. This information was often edited by Baedeker himself, and sons would take over and expand the business after his death. This edition provides detailed information, including money tables, rail and steamship options, along with many folding maps and plates of Belgium and Holland. ODB
Joe Alsop's Cold War; a Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue
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Joe Alsop's Cold War; a Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue by Yoder, Edwin M., Jr.

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Title
Joe Alsop's Cold War; a Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue
Author
Yoder, Edwin M., Jr.
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780807821909
Description
Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiii, 220p., 15 b/w illus., dj.
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The Rule Book - the authoritative, up-to-date, illustrated guide to the regulations, history, and object of all major sports

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The Rule Book - the authoritative, up-to-date, illustrated guide to the regulations, history, and object of all major sports
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Very Good. First American edition. Very good. Book is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, foredges lightly soiled.

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