complete collection
Éditions GLM, Paris, 1946 & 1947, (19 x 28.5 cm), 56 pages each volume, in sheets with printed covers.
Layed out and printed by Guy Lévis Mano.
Volume 1: Texts by Lautréamont Maldoror illustrated by Max Ernst, Negro poems illustrated by southern engravings. Sahara, Federico Garcia Lorca The King of Harlem illustrated with a portrait of Lorca by himself, Tristan Corbière The fairground rhapsody and the forgiveness of Sainte-Anne illustrated with an engraving depicting The Tale of Knight Oben, Walt Whitman Adam's children illustrated by a drawing by Grégorio Priéto, at the end of the volume Indications on the authors illustrated with a drawing by Pablo Picasso.
Volume 2: Texts by Charles Baudelaire Poetry illustrated with a drawing by Lucien Coutaud, Jacques Prévert Attempt at a dinner of heads in Paris-France illustrated with a woodcut taken from Pantagruel's Drôlatique Dream, King Renaud illustrated with a woodcut taken from the Dictié des Trespassez, Song of Songs illustrated with an image from Le Sueur et Le Dominiquin, Franz Kafka A Cage, William Shakespeare Sonnets with English text and translation by Maurice Blanchard, Old Spanish romances with Spanish text and translation by Guy Lévis Mano illustrated with a woodcut taken from Songe drôlatique de pantagruel and an ornament from the 17th century, Indications on the authors and texts illustrated with a drawing by André Masson.
Complete edition printed in 512 copies for each volume, 1/475 copies. numbered on beautiful Marais vellum paper.
Copies in excellent condition.
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