MARET (Jacques).
Useless sheets.
Paris: La Connaissance, Marcel Seheur, 1929-1937. - 10 issues in-8, in sheets in black cloth-backed cardboard folders, cloth bindings.

Set of 10 issues (out of 22) of this very rare surrealist poetry review founded by the artist and poet Jacques MARET (1900-1980) who was a pupil of Victor Prouvé and Maurice Denis.

The collection consists of numbers 1, 4, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 22. Each number is abundantly illustrated. There are etchings, drawings and collages by Jacques Maret, as well as compositions by Jean Joucan, Georges Valmier, etc. Among the contributors to this journal are André Salmon, Max Jacob, Marcel Sauvage, Pierre Albert-Birot, Léon Pierre-Quint, Saint-Pol-Roux, Jacques Audiberti, Gisèle Prassinos, Gilbert Lély, Tristan Tzara, etc. Ten other issues appeared much later, between 1960 and 1980, in a

limited edition

.

Numbers 1 and 4 were printed at 120 copies, numbers 9 and 11 at 80 copies, number 14 at 90 copies and numbers 15, 17, 19, 20 and 22 at 95 copies.

Complete copy of the Useful Sheets numbers 1, 2 and 4 respectively placed at the end of numbers 19, 20 and 22.

Some slight wear and tear on the cardboard boxes

.

Very good interior condition, some leaves are rusty, as in the majority of the copies.
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MARET (Jacques). Useless sheets. Paris: La Connaissance, Marcel Seheur, 1929-1937. - 10 issues in-8, in sheets in black cloth-backed cardboard folders, cloth bindings. Set of 10 issues (out of 22) of this very rare surrealist poetry review founded by the artist and poet Jacques MARET (1900-1980) who was a pupil of Victor Prouvé and Maurice Denis. The collection consists of numbers 1, 4, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 22. Each number is abundantly illustrated. There are etchings, drawings and collages by Jacques Maret, as well as compositions by Jean Joucan, Georges Valmier, etc. Among the contributors to this journal are André Salmon, Max Jacob, Marcel Sauvage, Pierre Albert-Birot, Léon Pierre-Quint, Saint-Pol-Roux, Jacques Audiberti, Gisèle Prassinos, Gilbert Lély, Tristan Tzara, etc. Ten other issues appeared much later, between 1960 and 1980, in a limited edition . Numbers 1 and 4 were printed at 120 copies, numbers 9 and 11 at 80 copies, number 14 at 90 copies and numbers 15, 17, 19, 20 and 22 at 95 copies. Complete copy of the Useful Sheets numbers 1, 2 and 4 respectively placed at the end of numbers 19, 20 and 22. Some slight wear and tear on the cardboard boxes . Very good interior condition, some leaves are rusty, as in the majority of the copies.

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MARET (Jacques). Useless sheets. Paris: La Connaissance, Marcel Seheur, 1929-1937. - 10 issues in-8, in sheets in black cloth-backed cardboard folders, cloth bindings. Set of 10 issues (out of 22) of this very rare surrealist poetry review founded by the artist and poet Jacques MARET (1900-1980) who was a pupil of Victor Prouvé and Maurice Denis. The collection consists of numbers 1, 4, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 22. Each number is abundantly illustrated. There are etchings, drawings and collages by Jacques Maret, as well as compositions by Jean Joucan, Georges Valmier, etc. Among the contributors to this journal are André Salmon, Max Jacob, Marcel Sauvage, Pierre Albert-Birot, Léon Pierre-Quint, Saint-Pol-Roux, Jacques Audiberti, Gisèle Prassinos, Gilbert Lély, Tristan Tzara, etc. Ten other issues appeared much later, between 1960 and 1980, in a limited edition . Numbers 1 and 4 were printed at 120 copies, numbers 9 and 11 at 80 copies, number 14 at 90 copies and numbers 15, 17, 19, 20 and 22 at 95 copies. Complete copy of the Useful Sheets numbers 1, 2 and 4 respectively placed at the end of numbers 19, 20 and 22. Some slight wear and tear on the cardboard boxes . Very good interior condition, some leaves are rusty, as in the majority of the copies.
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