Benjamin PÉRET. - Lot 201

Lot n° 201
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Benjamin PÉRET. - Lot 201
Benjamin PÉRET. I don't eat that bread. Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, 1936. In-12, stapled, uncut, all margins. First edition: one of the 25 author's copies on red laid paper (announced as "Le Roy Louis paper, Burgundy tint", #24). Beautiful original etching by Max Ernst in frontispiece, printed on China paper, here in six states of different colors. The etching is attached only to the copies on large paper, i.e. one on pearly japan, fifteen on imperial japan and the twenty-five author's copies. Important autograph signed on the forgery: To André Breton The premature, but slightly premature burst that kills adventurers He who considers himself his best friend. Benjamin Péret Copy preserved as published. Insolated back. The subscription form and the autograph manuscript of the poem Nungesser und Coli sind verreckt are enclosed. Ink working manuscript, with important variants from the printed version. The original title, "La mort de Nungesser & Coli" (The Death of Nungesser & Coli), has been crossed out and replaced by the title finally retained, inscribed at the head of the manuscript in the hand of André Breton. (Autograph manuscript, 2 pp. in-8 on ruled paper).
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