ARTAUD (Antonin). Le Théâtre de la cruauté (manifesto). Paris : NRF, 1932. - Booklet in-8, paperback. Rare first edition, printed in a small number, of this famous manifesto by Antonin Artaud on the "Theatre of Cruelty", which will be reprinted in 1939 in "Le Théâtre et son double". The text begins in these terms: "It is a question of giving back to the theatrical representation the aspect of a devouring fire, of bringing at least once in the course of a performance the action, the situations, the images to that degree of implacable incandescence, which in the psychological or cosmic domain is identified with cruelty. Some soiling to the cover.