A Mème la Terre.
by (DALI). Paalen, Alice
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris.: Editions Surréalistes., 1936.. Original publisher's blue-printed wrappers with titles in magenta to front cover.. 12mo. (144 x 98 mm).. Half-title, printed title and Paalen's verse, leaf with justification and final leaf with achevé d'imprimer. Salvador and Gala Dali's copy with a presentation from Alice Paalen.From the edition limited to 235 copies, with this unopened copy one of 200 on vergé and with a presentation on the half-title from Paalen in black ink: 'à Gala Dalí / à Salvador Dalí / très sympathique hommage / d'Alice Paalen / "inattendu comme le / visage du retour"'.Alice Paalen (1904 - 1987), née Rahon, Surrealist poet and painter, married the Austrian Surrealist Wolfgang Paalen in 1930. She participated in Surrealist activities during the early 30s and had a significant liaison with Picasso before the publication of her first collection of poetry in 1936 (A Mème La Terre), the same year that she went to India with fellow poet and Surrealist Valentine Penrose. Further collections followed (Sablier Couché, 1939 and Noir Animal, 1941) before she turned her attention to painting.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33033
- Title
- A Mème la Terre.
- Author
- (DALI). Paalen, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's blue-printed wrappers with titles in magenta to front cover.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Editions Surréalistes.
- Place of Publication
- Paris.
- Date Published
- 1936.
- Pages
- [52 leaves; pp. 98, (iv)].
- Size
- 12mo. (144 x 98 mm).
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Glossary
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...