Search Results: SURREALISM from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1969. First edition. Wrappers, spine faded, very good. Five line presentation inscription from Schuster.

San Francisco, CA: Stephen Schwartz, 1970. Wrappers, very good.

Los Angeles, CA: Artforum, 1966. Wrappers, fine. Issue focuses on surrealism.

Paris: Gallimard, 1964. First edition. First combined edition, limited and numbered. Wrappers, near fine. Stephen Schwartz bookplate after Victor Brauner.

About surrealist activities in France and California.

Paris: Editions du Carrefour, 1929. Wrappers, very good.

15 pages. An extensive and detailed correspondence between fellow editors, on Surrealism and politics, with copies of Schwartz's lengthy replies.

Collection of ten letters to San Francisco journalist Stephen Schwartz, 1975-76. Concerning articles on European art for City Magazine, and Stephen Schwartz's appointment as agent for sales of some collections of art works. With some additional ephemera, and a typewritten catalogue of the Dada photography collection that was one of the items offered for sale.

1967. On surrealist activities, publications, and translations.

[Paris]: N.R.F., 1952. First edition, on ordinary paper. Original wrappers. 317 p. 19 cm. Some yellowing, a very nice copy. S.p. copy. Publication announcement inserted. "Ces entretiens d'André Breton avec André Parinaud ont fait l'objet de seize émissions de la Radiodiffusion française"--.

Paris: Pauvert, 1965. Black cloth, fine, original clear plastic jacket worn. First edition, extensively illustrated.

Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1948. Second, revised edition of the first volume, first edition of the second. Original wrappers, low quality paper browned otherwise well preserved. Ill., ports. ; 20 cm. Collection "Pierres vives" Volume 2 is titled Documents surréalistes (1st ed. c1948). Yellowed pages with sun changes.

1963. One page, with two fine color drawings of fantastic creatures. Washington, 13 August 1963. Fine condition. Accompanied by a special leather-bound copy of Piazza's book "Los hombres y las cosas sólo querían jugar", Mexico, 1963, which Cuevas illustrated. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a large collection of Cuevas's illustrated letters.

[New York]: Editions Surréalistes, 1943. First edition. 47 p. 1 port. ; 18 cm. Original wrappers, very good. Unnumbered copy from the edition of 660.

[Paris]: Gallimard, 1937. First edition, on "chataignier" paper, one of 1900. [137] p. 19 cm., original white wrappers, usual browning to text but a nice copy. Illustrated with photographs by Man Ray, Cartier-Bresson, Dora Maar, and Brassai.

Paris: La Soleil Noir, 1968. First edition. Alechinsky, Pierre. Wrappers, spine faded, otherwise fine. One of 1900 numbered copies.

[Paris]: Le Sagittaire, 1955. Cloth, labels, 121 p. 21 cm. Slight fading. Extensively illustrated, complete with the loupe on a ribbon.

Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1967. Wrappers, fine.

[Paris: Fontaine, 1947. First edition. Kiesler,Frederick J.. 41 p. illus. 28 cm. Collection "L'Age d'or." Original wrappers, tanning at the edges, but a fine copy. Copy 223 of 750 numbered copies on vélin paper. Designed and illustrated by Frederick Kiesler, the Romanian emigre, whose architectural projects, including the "Endless House" and the "Shrine of the Book", built in Jerusalem to house the Dead Sea Scrolls, and surrealist works became well-known through major one-artist exhibitions in America at the Guggenheim Museum in 1964 and at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1989. "[An] extraordinarily abstruse volume whose idiosyncratic typography and illustrations prefigure later word poetry and the publications of the Fluxus movement," Robert Flynn Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, #126.

Paris: Gallimard, 1948. First edition. 271 p. 21 cm.; Boards, copy number 97 of 540 on Alfa paper, cover design by Mario Prassinos. Faint wear to extremities. Contents: Mont de piété.--Les champs magnétiques.--Clair de terre.--Poisson soluble.--L'union libre.--Le revolver à cheveux blancs.--Violette Nozières.--L'air de l'eau.--1935-1940.--Pleine marge.--Fata morgana.--1940-1948.--Les états généraux.--Xénophiles.--Ode à Charles Fourier.