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rare and scholarly books
on the fine arts
Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
242
PALADINO, MIMMO
Una piccola storia in un giardino di delizie. 9 original pen-and-ink drawings, unsigned. Each 219 x 169 mm. (8 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches); versos blank. Together with these, an autograph presentation note from the artist: "Caro Mario/ una piccola storia./ un passo dopo l’altro/ in un giardino di delizie./ Mimmo." The series is loosely inserted into corner mounts on the leaves of a custom-made leather album, with glassine guards. Sm. folio. Full tan calf, stamped in black on the front cover. Paladino’s ‘story’ was published in the 7th and last issue of the review "TAU/MA," put out by Mario Diacono and Claudio Parmiggiani in Reggio Emilia in 1981.
[Milano] 1980. $15,000.00
243
PANA, SASA
Iarba fiarelor. (Colectia UNU. No. 1.) 28, (4)pp. Back cover vignette by Victor Brauner (previously printed in "UNU" no. 17). Self-wraps. (cover neatly mended). Unnumbered edition of 213 copies. Occasional annotations in ink.
Bucuresti (Editura UNU), 1937. $1,500.00
Ilk K491
244
PANA, SASA.
Viata romantata a lui dumnezeu. Cu un desen afara din text de Jean David. 73, (7)pp. Frontis. drawing by Jean David. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. Edition limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page by Jean David, May 1932. Very rare.
Bucuresti (Editura UNU), 1932. $1,800.00
Ilk K487, illus. p. 95
245
PANA, SASA.
Vladimir. Portrete Mici. Dialoguri. (Colectia UNU. No. 4.) Sm. 8vo. Self-wraps., stitched, as issued. Edition limited to 96 unnumbered copies in all, hors commerce. A little light wear. Of greatest rarity.
Bucuresti (Editura UNU), 1938. $1,500.00
Ilk K493
246
(PANA,SASA,translator)Eluard,Paul
Animalele si Oamenii lor Oamenii si Animalele lor. Poeme, traduse se Sasa Pana. (Colectia UNU. No. 3.) Wraps. (light wear). Unnumbered edition of 199 copies.
Bucuresti (Editura UNU), 1938. $1,500.00
Ilk K492
247
PANSAERS, CLÉMENT
L’apologie de la paresse. 61, (3)pp. Wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 300 numbered copies on bouffant, from the limited edition of 306. The central personality in Belgian Dada, Clément Pansaers was also a pivotal figure in the world of Paris Dada from the time of his arrival early in 1921 as a correspondent for "Ça ira." Involved with the "Littérature" group and "Le coeur à barbe," he eventually broke with the group, and went on to what he called the "assassination of Dada" in a special number of "Ça ira" entitled ‘Dada, Its Birth, Life and Death,’ in November 1921. Before his untimely death in 1922, he published three books, of which this is one (together with "La pan-pan au cul du nu nègre" and "Bar Nicanor"). Small flaw on flyleaf; a nice copy.
Anvers (Ça Ira!), 1921. $850.00
Zürich 331; Bruxelles, Bibl. Royale Albert Ier: Cinquante ans d’avant-garde (1983), no. 42
248
PANSAERS, CLÉMENT
Bar Nicanor. Avec un portrait de Crotte de Bique et de Couillandouille par eux-mêmes. 52pp. 2 original relief prints by Pansaers, printed in brown, at outset of text. Contents printed on salmon-colored stock. Printed wraps. (lightly browned at edges). Glassine d.j. One of 300 numbered copies on bouffant, from the limited edition of 305. An important presentation copy, inscribed at the head of the first woodcut leaf "A Maurice Van Essche/ Ça Ira/ C Pansaers." Together with Pansaers and Paul Neuhuys, Van Essche was the co-editor, of the Belgian Dada review "Ça ira."
A fresh copy.
Bruxelles (Editions A I O), 1921. $1,500.00
Gershman p. 31; Dada Global 79; Bruxelles, Bibl. Royale Albert Ier: Cinquante ans d’avant-garde (1983), no. 18
249
[PAPINI, GIOVANNI & SOFFICI, ARDENGO, editors]
Almanacco purgativo 1914. 148, (12)pp. 9 illus. by Soffici. Lrg. 8vo. New blue leatherette. Orig. dec. wraps. (designed by Soffici) and backstrip bound in. Written by Soffici and Papini and their friends during the run of the Futurist exhibition sponsored by "Lacerba" at the gallery of Ferrante Gonelli, Florence, November 1913 - January 1914. Front wrapper mended; cut somewhat close at right edge.
Firenze (Tipografia di A. Vallecchi e C.), 1913. $500.00
Salaris p. 74
250
PARIS. Librairie José Corti
Le groupe Surréaliste. Catalogue de livres en vente à la Librairie José Corti. (6)pp. (single sheet, folding). 3 illus. of collages. Dec. self-wraps. A fine copy.
Paris, [1930]. $375.00
251
PARIS. Renou & Colle
Mexique. Préface d’André Breton. (16)pp. 5 tipped-in halftone illus. (including 1 on front cover). Sm. 4to. Dec. self-wraps. All contents loose, as issued. One of 550 copies on vélin du Marais, from the limited edition of 570 in all. Organized by Breton 10-15 March 1939, originally as a solo exhibition of paintings by Frida Kahlo, the show was expanded to include a wide range of discoveries made during his trip to Mexico in 1938: Precolumbian ceramics, colonial retables, woodcuts by Posada, and photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, whom he was anxious to conscript in the Surrealist movement, and to whom he consecrates here a special text (as well as featuring a superb photo by him on the cover). Two of the four reproductive photographs (showing indigenous art) are by Raoul Ubac. Sheringham notes that Breton is the author of the entire pamphlet, not just the preface, as stated. A fine copy.
Paris, [1939]. $650.00
Sheringham Ac310; Pompidou Breton p. 248; Biro/Passeron p. 281; Reynolds p. 17; Milano p. 653