AVANT-GARDE 214 C ATALOGUE 137 TWENTIETH-CENTURY AVANT-GARDE Rare Books and Documents ars libri ltd ARS LIBRI LTD 500 Harrison Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02118 U.S.A. tel: 617.357.5212 fax: 617.338.5763 email: [email protected] http://www.arslibri.com All items are in good antiquarian condition, unless otherwise described. All prices are net. Massachusetts residents should add 5% sales tax. Reserved items will be held for two weeks pending receipt of payment or formal orders. Orders from individuals unknown to us must be accompanied by payment or by satisfactory references. All items may be returned, if returned within two weeks in the same condition as sent, and if packed, shipped and insured as received. When ordering from this catalogue please refer to Catalogue Number One Hundred and Thirty-Seven and indicate the item number(s). Overseas clients must remit in U.S. dollar funds, payable on a U.S. bank, or transfer the amount due directly to the account of Ars Libri Ltd., Cambridge Trust Company, 1336 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02238, Account No. 39-665-6-01. Clients maintaining accounts in Germany may remit to our German account: Commerzbank, Filiale Bad Soden, 65812 Bad Soden/Taunus, Germany, Account No. 1160159 (BLZ 500 400 00). Mastercard, Visa and American Express accepted. avant-garde 5 1 ABE KONGO Shururearizumu kaigaron [Surrealist Painting]. 115pp., 10 plates (reproducing work by Ozenfant, Picabia, Léger, Bran- cusi, Ernst, and others). Printed wraps. Glassine d.j. Back- strip chipped, otherwise fine. Tokyo (Tenjinsha), 1930. $1,200.00 Centre Georges Pompidou: Japon des avant-gardes 1910/1970 (Paris, 1986), pp. 192 (illus.), 515 2 ACTION Cahiers individualistes de philosophie et d’art. Directeurs: Florent Fels et Marcel Sauvage. Nos. 1-[12], February 1920 - March/April 1922 (all published). 56-88pp. per issue. Numerous illus. hors texte. Original woodcut vignettes and culs-de-lampe throughout, by Vlaminck, Galanis, and others. 4to. and 8vo. (final issue]). Orig. printed wraps. A complete run. Texts by Apollinaire, Cendrars, Salmon, Jacob, Huidobro, Jarry, Péret, Raynal, Vlaminck, Malraux, Satie, Gabory, Arnauld, Martin du Gard, Ehrenburg, Dermée, Artaud, Éluard, Tzara, Zbrorowski, Radiguet, Vlaminck, et al. No. 3 contains the feature “Opinions sur l’art nègre,” with statements by Apollinaire, Cocteau, Gris, Lipchitz, Picasso, Salmon, Vlaminck and others (also “L’affaire dada” by Gleizes); no. 5 contains “Anthologie d’écrivains allemands contemporains.” There are frequent critical texts on African art, principally by Carl Einstein. Light browning, as always; an attractive and well-preserved set. Paris, 1920-1922. $4,000.00 Place/Vasseur III.73ff.; Chevrefils Desbiolles p. 253f.; Admussen 2 3 ALBERS, JOSEF, et al. Beilage der Neuen Frauenkleidung und Frauenkultur. (Neue 7 Frauenkleidung und Frauenkultur. Januar 1925.) 8pp. 7 illus. 5 4to. Self-wraps., stapled as issued. Josef Albers’ lead article, ALBERT-BIROT, PIERRE “Werkstatt-Arbeiten des Staatlichen Bauhauses zu Larountala. Polydrame en deux parties, composé en 1917- Weimar,”includes illustrations of furniture by Albers himself (a 1918. 92pp. 1 full-page original woodcut (frontispiece). Lrg. beautiful Constructivist wooden table), Erich Dieckmann, and 8vo. Boards, 3/4 black calf gilt. One of 120 numbered copies Marcel Breuer. Following are articles by Walter Gropius (an on Arches, from the limited edition of 124 in all. Albert-Birot’s excerpt from “Idee und Aufbau”) and Anni Albers, still writing elaborate ‘polydrame,’ with musical score by Germaine as Anneliese Fleischmann (“Wohnökonomie” ). Their writings Albert-Birot, entails a cast of more than 50 characters, includ- were part of a public relations campaign by the Weimar ing the sixteenth-century ceramic artist Bernard Palissy, Bauhaus, in a climate of of mounting hostility. Last two leaves policemen, clowns, children, dancers, and a tiger. The strik- waterdamaged, with loss at foot, somewhat affecting text and ing, primitivistic woodcut composition depicts a bearded illustration; minor soiling of first leaf. writer facing out from a table, like a seated Sumerian scribe. Karlsruhe/Berlin, 1925. $275.00 Presentation copy, inscribed “A M. [effaced]/ hommage de Wingler p. 633 l’auteur/ Pierre Albert-Birot/ 30 mai 1919” on the first blank leaf. A little browning and wear; handsomely bound. 4 Paris (Éditions “Sic”), 1919. $800.00 ALBERT-BIROT, PIERRE Trente et un poèmes de poche. Préface de Guillaume Apolli- 6 naire. (58)pp. Sm. 8vo. Wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 80 num- ALBERT-BIROT, PIERRE bered copies on bouffant, from the limited edition of 135 in all. Le catalogue de l’antiquaire. 62pp. Blue wraps., with mount- Apollinaire’s “Poèmepréfaceprophétie” is a whimsical verse ed paper label on front cover. Glassine d.j. One of 140 copies in five numbered stanzas, beginning “Pierre Albert-Birot est on vélin blanc, hand-numbered by Albert-Birot, from the edi- une sorte de pyrogène/ Si vous voulez enflammer des tion of 201 in all, printed by “SIC” for Jean Budry. Manuscript allumettes/ Frottez-les donc sur lui/ Elle ont des chances de corrections on pp. 37 and 40, presumably by the author. prendre/ Trop peu de pyrogènes aujourd’hui/ Mais je ne dis Albert-Birot, who worked (for some twenty years) for the anti- rien des allumettes.” One of the key books in Albert-Birot’s quaire Édouard Larcade on the Champs-Élysées, found him- oeuvre. A fine copy. self alone as the caretaker of a private collection of antiques Paris (Editions “SIC”), 1917. $950.00 and antiquities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the month of Biro/Passeron p. 14 November 1922. His”peintures à la plume” are Proustian 6 ars libri poetic meditations, tinged with Surrealism, on these objects which took on imaginary lives of their own as he fell under their spell. Together with this, a copy of the 1993 re-edition. Light wear. Paris (Éditions Jean Budry et Cie.), 1923. $550.00 7 ALBERT-BIROT, PIERRE La lune, ou le livre des poèmes. 229pp. Wraps. (front cover partly detached). Glassine d.j. One of 300 numbered copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma, from the limited edition of 326 in all. The work includes a lavish complement of calligrams. Together with this, a small folding handbill of Albert-Birot’s “Comm’ ça,” privately printed by Arlette Albert-Birot on the author’s own press, as a New Year’s gift, 1969. Paris (Jean Budry & Cie.), 1924. $800.00 Dada Global 192 8 ALBERT-BIROT, PIERRE Miniatures. Trente jeux prosodiques. 36pp. 12mo. Printed blue wraps. Glassine d.j. Edition limited to 100 copies in all, numbered in pen by the author. Partly unopened. A hand- some presentation copy, boldly inscribed to the Surrealist writer Joë Bousquet “en souvenir d’une belle letttre/ Pierre Albert-Birot/ Paris 25 Avril 1939.” Paris (Éditions des Canettes), 1939. $450.00 Biro/Passeron p. 14 9 (ALECHINSKY) Caillois, Roger Un mannequin sur le trottoir. Pierre Alechinsky: remarques au pinceau. (20)pp. Illustrations in color throughout by Alechinsky, including 5 plates (2 double-page) and 14 inte- grated with text; the text itself a facsimile typescript contain- ing manuscript corrections by the author. Sm. folio. Portfolio (dec. slipcase, chemise). Contents loose, as issued. Edition limited to 450 hand-numbered copies, signed in the justifica- tion by Alechinsky and Caillois. Light wear to the slipcase. Paris (Yves Rivière), 1974. $950.00 Sicard, Michel: Alechinsky: travaux d’impression (Paris, 1992), no. 30; Peyré, Yves, et al.: Pierre Alechinsky: The Complete Books (Antwerpen: Ceuleers & Van de Velde, 2002), no. 38 10 (APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME) Manifestation “SIC” du 24 juin 1917. (8)pp. 2 illustrations, by Picasso (line drawing on cover) and Matisse (linocut, “Nu assis,” reproduced full-page in the interior). Sm. sq. folio. Self-wraps, stitched as issued. One of 20 numbered copies on Japon, signed by Albert-Birot on the front cover, from the édition de tête of 30 copies. Texts by Max Jacob (“Peri- gal-Nohor”), Jean Cocteau (“Zèbre”), Pierre Reverdy (“Mao- Tcha,” dedicated to Apollinaire) and Albert-Birot (“Poème en rond,” a calligram). The deluxe edition of the program for the premiere of Apolli- naire’s “Les mamelles de Tirésias,” which was produced under “SIC”‘s auspices. Subtitled “drame sur-réaliste en deux actes et un prologue,” it was the first prominent public appearance of the word “surrealist’ (which had also been used once, in passing, in Apollinaire’s note on “Parade” the month before). The program predates the serialization of the 10 play in “SIC,” which began in the July 1917 issue, and the first 11 edition of it in book form, which came out the following year. avant-garde 7 12 Apollinaire had been wavering about whether to call his work edges). Arp’s fourth book, a collection of dada poems. The “drame sur-réaliste” or “drame sur-naturaliste” (as it appears 41-line 3-column mechanical repetition of the title on each in manuscript drafts of the play), and it was in fact Albert-Birot cover, a more emphatic recasting of Duchamp’s design for who convinced him to go with the latter. “The play, which “New York Dada,” is one of the most influential typographic introduces the term surrealism, contains innovations—partic- inventions of the period. Front inner hinge with hairline crack; ularly its dissociation of language from setting or plot—that a little light browning; a handsome copy. This issue in boards, prove formative for Paris Dada and its echoes around rather than wrappers, is exceedingly rare. Europe” (Washington: Dada, chronology by Matthew S. Erlenbach-Zürich/ München (Eugen Rentsch) [1924]. Witkovsky). A large and impressive publication, the letter- $4,500.00 press bold on the Japon paper. Very fine. Bleikasten Aa29; Rolandseck 89; Dada Zürich 67; Pompidou Paris (SIC), 1917. $3,000.00 Dada 1211; Motherwell/Karpel 194; Verkauf p.