Joë BOUSQUET.

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Joë BOUSQUET.
The Bride of the Wind. Carcassonne, Imprimerie P. Polère, no date [1928]. In-8 : black buffalo, smooth spine, boards decorated in relief and in hollow with a mosaic of black leather pieces, brown cowhide and oval pieces in stag horn, black box lining, garnet crust endpapers, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, folder, case (Monique Mathieu, 1990). Rare first edition of Joë Bousquet's first book: it was published without an author's name. Offprint from the journal Chantier, printed in Carcassonne and illustrated with five out-of-text reproductions, four of which are female portraits painted by Antoine Cazenave. The fourth cover page bears the printed mention of deposit at Librairie Gallimard in Paris. Autograph letter signed: to Jean Bellmer at the dawn of a new life my first book and all my friendship Joe Carcassonne, June 18, 1945. Just below, Bellmer's handwriting: to my friend Jean Brun June 25, 1945 Bellmer The painter did not keep his copy for more than a week before offering it to his friend Jean Brun, a haste that was all the more surprising since Joë Bousquet and Hans Bellmer were very close. A small leaflet bearing two pages of disparate notes by Joë Bousquet (a routing sheet for the periodical Point de Vue at the writer's address, 53 rue de Verdun in Carcassonne) has been mounted at the top. Sentence essays: "Vain in its being, shameful in its expression, life can only occur in a form to be discovered"; "Max Jacob, Reverdy, Picasso were neighbours"; "The most outdated and severely regulated societies..."; "What will be thought of the uses of art that accompany these poetic epures of the spirit in freedom..." Important and beautiful original binding by Monique Mathieu.
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