Lot n° 272
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Léon TROTSKY.
My life. Autobiographical essay. Translated from the manuscript by Maurice-Parijanine. Paris, Éditions Rieder, 1930.
3 volumes in-8 : paperback.
First French edition. It is illustrated with four portraits of the author out of the text.
Remarkable autograph letter signed on the false title:
To my dear friends
Jacqueline and André Breton with the most sincere feelings 27 VII 1938 L. Trotsky
Cayoacan
André Breton and his wife Jacqueline stayed in Diego Rivera's house in Coyoacan, Mexico, from April 18 to August 1, 1938, where they met Leon Trotsky. On July 27, the exiled revolutionary, hunted by the Stalinist authorities, dedicated to them the copy of the French edition of his autobiography.
Two death notices from Natalie Sedova-Trotsky, the revolutionary's widow, are enclosed: one addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Breton, the other to
Breton alone (envelopes retained).
On this occasion, André Breton spoke. The latter inserted in his copy two press clippings annotated by him from the newspaper Le Monde of 29 January 1962 and from France-Soir of the following day.
He has also enclosed the letter received in the name of the Spartacus group on 27 January 1962: a message from Janine Fernandez and Louis Janover saluting "not only the companion of Leon Trotsky, but also a revolutionary who irreducibly opposed, until the end of her life, the Stalinist counter-revolution, and whose uncompromising struggle remains for us exemplary." (Breton sale, 42 rue Fontaine, no. 1493.)
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