02-14-201302-14-2013
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
February 14, 2013 10:00 AMCalender
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Surrealism and Graphic Novel, Three Volumes:

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$800$800
Auction: Discovery - 2637MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: February 14, 2013 10:00AM

Description:

Surrealism and Graphic Novel, Three Volumes: Louis Aragon's La Grande Gaîté, Avec 2 Dessins d'Yves Tanguy, Paris: Gallimard, 1929, limited edition, number 138 of 150 copies, with two tipped in illustrations by Tanguy, in publishers' soft red paper wraps, printed in black, light water stains to front few pages, not affecting text, unopened; [with] Salvador Dali's L'Amour et la Mémoire, Paris: Editions Surrealiste, 1931, limited edition, number 67 of 310 on "velin blanc," with photographic frontispiece of Dali, in publishers' pebbled red paper wraps, worn around the edges, slight soiling and foxing, unopened; [and] Otto Nückel's Destiny, a Novel in Pictures, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1930], original publishers' cloth with black block printing on front board and spine, cover slightly spotted, spotting to first few leaves and edges. (3)
Estimate $200-300


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Keywords

Paris, Louis Aragon, black block printing, Farrar & Rinehart Inc.