BRETON (André).
La Clé des champs.
Paris : Éditions du Sagittaire, [1953]. - In-8, 227 x 143 : 283 pp, (2 ff.), 9 plates, printed cover. Paperback, in illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of this collection of texts by André Breton, illustrated with 9 plates on glossy paper.
Copy on edition paper, complete with the dust jacket illustrated by Joan MIRÓ, enriched with this very nice autograph letter signed by the author addressed to the Swiss writer and literary critic Marcel Raymond (1897-1981) :
To Marcel Raymond // who did me the great honor // of inviting me to speak // about Rousseau in Geneva // but I would be too moved - love - // to a child still passes! // (p. 276) but there, // who should I be? // with my warmest thoughts and wishes // André BretonRaymond was the author of numerous essays, the most famous of which concerns the contemporary poetic movement, entitled De Baudelaire au surréalisme (1933).
A few traces of tears without gravity on the first cover. Dry stamp " Donation Marcel Raymond " on the false title and the title. A few tears on the edges of the dust jacket, a 4 cm piece has been cut at the bottom of the spine.
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BRETON (André). La Clé des champs. Paris : Éditions du Sagittaire, [1953]. - In-8, 227 x 143 : 283 pp, (2 ff.), 9 plates, printed cover. Paperback, in illustrated dust jacket. First edition of this collection of texts by André Breton, illustrated with 9 plates on glossy paper. Copy on edition paper, complete with the dust jacket illustrated by Joan MIRÓ, enriched with this very nice autograph letter signed by the author addressed to the Swiss writer and literary critic Marcel Raymond (1897-1981) : To Marcel Raymond // who did me the great honor // of inviting me to speak // about Rousseau in Geneva // but I would be too moved - love - // to a child still passes! // (p. 276) but there, // who should I be? // with my warmest thoughts and wishes // André BretonRaymond was the author of numerous essays, the most famous of which concerns the contemporary poetic movement, entitled De Baudelaire au surréalisme (1933). A few traces of tears without gravity on the first cover. Dry stamp " Donation Marcel Raymond " on the false title and the title. A few tears on the edges of the dust jacket, a 4 cm piece has been cut at the bottom of the spine.

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BRETON (André). La Clé des champs. Paris : Éditions du Sagittaire, [1953]. - In-8, 227 x 143 : 283 pp, (2 ff.), 9 plates, printed cover. Paperback, in illustrated dust jacket. First edition of this collection of texts by André Breton, illustrated with 9 plates on glossy paper. Copy on edition paper, complete with the dust jacket illustrated by Joan MIRÓ, enriched with this very nice autograph letter signed by the author addressed to the Swiss writer and literary critic Marcel Raymond (1897-1981) : To Marcel Raymond // who did me the great honor // of inviting me to speak // about Rousseau in Geneva // but I would be too moved - love - // to a child still passes! // (p. 276) but there, // who should I be? // with my warmest thoughts and wishes // André BretonRaymond was the author of numerous essays, the most famous of which concerns the contemporary poetic movement, entitled De Baudelaire au surréalisme (1933). A few traces of tears without gravity on the first cover. Dry stamp " Donation Marcel Raymond " on the false title and the title. A few tears on the edges of the dust jacket, a 4 cm piece has been cut at the bottom of the spine.
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