Les pénitents en maillots roses
Les pénitents en maillots roses belongs to Max Jacob’s subtle, agile poetry of the years following his conversion and his partial withdrawal from the Parisian scene. The book was published in 1925 by Aux Éditions du Sagittaire, chez Simon Kra, as no. 17 in the series Les Cahiers nouveaux. In this compact volume, burlesque observation, religious unease and verbal lightness meet in a characteristically Jacobian manner. This copy is enriched with a witty, slightly self-mocking inscription in brown ink. The recipient Fouquet is probably Gaëtan Fouquet (1903–1973), a well-known figure within the broader Parisian modernist circle.. For the bibliophile, its appeal lies in the conjunction of first edition, numbered issue and personal envoi.
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Les pénitents en maillots roses
1925 | Paris | Éditions du Sagittaire (Simon Kra)
A rare and personal copy of a characteristic Max Jacob collection from 1925. Its numbered first edition, Bruges printing history and probable link to Pierre-Louis Flouquet give it particular distinction.
Les pénitents en maillots roses belongs to Max Jacob’s subtle, agile poetry of the years following his conversion and his partial withdrawal from the Parisian scene. The book was published in 1925 by Aux Éditions du Sagittaire, chez Simon Kra, as no. 17 in the series Les Cahiers nouveaux. In this compact volume, burlesque observation, religious unease and verbal lightness meet in a characteristically Jacobian manner. This copy is enriched with a witty, slightly self-mocking inscription in brown ink. The recipient Fouquet is probably Gaëtan Fouquet (1903–1973), a well-known figure within the broader Parisian modernist circle.. For the bibliophile, its appeal lies in the conjunction of first edition, numbered issue and personal envoi.
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In-12 (Duodecimo) approx. 17 × 22 cm
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One of 850 numbered copies on vélin de Rives, after 50 copies on Japon; this copy no. 425, enriched with an inscription by Max Jacob to Fouquet.
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900
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No. 425
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This collection consists of short poems and poetic fragments in which Max Jacob sets everyday scenes, religious imagery, burlesque invention and wayward voices side by side. There is no continuous plot with fixed characters; its unity comes from tone, repetition, rhythmic shifts and the collision of seriousness with jest. The title immediately conjures a strange scene: penitents, traditionally associated with devotion and guilt, appear in pink bathing suits, so that sacred gravity and modern absurdity are fused from the outset. The poems move between street scene, prayer, wordplay, memory and witty observation. Jacob often uses unexpected turns, sound repetitions and seemingly loose associations to create a world in which humility and comedy stand close together. What remains is a poetry that does not so much narrate reality as tilt it. The volume belongs to Jacob’s modernist search for a poetry in which mysticism, irony and daily life continually question one another.
Cocteau, Jean
La Noce massacrée
La Noce massacrée belongs to Jean Cocteau’s early, sharply modernist phase, shortly after Parade and in close proximity to Raymond Radiguet. The book appeared in 1921 with À la Sirène, a publisher closely connected with the Parisian artistic avant-garde and literary modernism. The presence of a vignette after Picasso reinforces that context, although this is not an illustrated artist’s book in the strict sense. Cocteau writes from a milieu in which literature, theatre, ballet, visual art and social polemic constantly intersected. The printed dedication to Radiguet also makes the book a witness to a decisive friendship and intellectual alliance. This copy, n°XIX, belongs to the first 40 copies on vergé d’Arches, the most desirable form of the edition.
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€850
Tzara, Tristan
Grains et issues
Grains et issues is a key publication in Tristan Tzara’s passage from Dadaist disruption to Surrealist and revolutionary reflection. The book appeared in 1935 with Denoël et Steele, at a moment when poetry, politics and theory were becoming increasingly intertwined within the avant-garde. Tzara, once the voice and organizer of Dada in Zurich and Paris, no longer seeks only the explosion of meaning, but also a dialectic between dream, matter, history and liberation. This original edition is bibliophilically notable as a large-paper copy: one of the copies on vergé d’Arches, signed by the author. Its unopened state preserves the tension between the book as an instrument of reading and the book as an untouched object. For The Hidden Page, it is an exceptionally strong match: a major historical avant-garde author, a key text and a scarce signed deluxe variant.
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€720
Pissarro, Lucien · Ricketts, Charles
De la typographie et de l’harmonie de la page imprimée. William Morris et son influence sur les arts et métiers
De la typographie et de l’harmonie de la page imprimée is a refined fin-de-siècle publication devoted to the art of the printed page. Lucien Pissarro and Charles Ricketts place William Morris at the centre as a reformer of the book, printing and the applied arts. The work belongs to the circles in which the Arts and Crafts movement, private press ideals and the renewed valuation of typography meet. The title makes clear that typography is not treated as a technical accessory, but as an harmony of type, margin, paper and page design. The edition appeared in 1898, in London from Ricketts and in Paris from Floury, standing between English private press culture and French bibliophile reception. This copy belongs to the issue of 250 copies on Arnold handmade laid paper within a total edition of 256 copies. The present errata slip and only slight corner wear make it bibliographically attractive and complete.
Book
€750
Bataille, Georges
La littérature et le mal
La littérature et le mal is one of Georges Bataille’s most penetrating books on the moral and metaphysical stakes of literature. In these essays he examines how major writers approach the boundary between law and transgression, guilt and sovereignty, eroticism and destruction. The volume brings together Emily Brontë, Baudelaire, Michelet, Blake, Sade, Proust, Kafka and Genet in a radical reading of literature as an experience of the forbidden. For Bataille, the literary work is not a polite mirror of morality, but a place where human beings encounter their most dangerous freedom. This copy is remarkable for its paper issue: one of only 25 on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, the sole large-paper issue.
