André BRETON (1896-1966). Autograph manuscript, Suite des prodiges, [1924]; 1 page in-4 on orange paper. Beautiful Surrealist prose poem, excerpted, as a final mention by Breton indicates, from his Introduction to the Discourse on the Little Reality (published in the Winter 1924 issue of Commerce, then by Gallimard in 1927). "The prodigy, Madame, but first I must describe the shipwreck. Our ship carried everything you could conceive of that was most ours, most precious. There was a plaster Virgin whose halo, to complete the resemblance, had been constructed from the Virgin's wires, so that it lit up with dew. There was an all-white artificial fly I'd stolen in a dream - yes, in a dream - from a dead fisherman, and which I spent hours watching float on the water I'd filled a blue bowl with: it was the bait I'd intended for the unknown. There was what could come from the depths of the earth, what could fall from the sky"...