ELUARD Paul (1895-1952)

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ELUARD Paul (1895-1952)
Giving to See and Other Poems. Autograph manuscript set, [1939]. Autograph set of donner à voir (1939) and other poems 30 pages in-4. Signed binding by P.-L. Martin, dated 1957. Black morocco, double cold-stamped fi lm along the edges of the boards, framing a central piece of lambskin velvet, bearing on the first board the author's name in blue chrome mosaic letters, the title in white box letters and the words "fragment manuscrit", cold-stamped; smooth spine bearing the author's name and the title in gilt letters, gilt head, linings and endpapers of pure chiff on paper. Transparent plastic spine flap folder, full midnight blue paper, lined slipcase. Case a little rubbed, otherwise perfect condition. Autograph manuscript fragment of Donner à voir (1939) and other poems: juste milieu: complete part, unsigned, in 20 stanzas on 19 rectos of laid paper, including 1 title page with the quotation from Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil, as well as a first quotation, crossed out and not retained in the work, extracted from Heraclitus: "The wise man is one only. He does not want and wants to be called by the name of Zeus". 18 autograph corrections, including two lines crossed out in the poem "Dormeurs," a single variant, in the poem "Jeunesse," the word "oubliait" has been crossed out and replaced with "perdait." Au fond du coeur: autograph poem signed, in black ink on strong salmon-tinted paper; 1 page in-4; 1 erasure and 1 addition; excellent condition. Au pays des hommes (André Masson): autograph poem signed, dated at the beginning "1923" and at the end "1938"; 2 pages in-4 in black ink on laid paper; 14 corrections and one variant, in the last stanza, does not fi gure "C'était en 1923". L'Heure exacte (to Valentine Hugo): unsigned autograph poem, 1 page in-4 in black ink on fine linen paper, small angular paper loss without damage with restoration; 2 corrections; poem part of the collection Cours naturel (1938). To Pablo Picasso: autograph poem signed, with two small drawings in the margin and dated "Mougins, August 1938; 4 pages in-4 (the second page misplaced, should be after stanza V); in black ink on 4 sheets of laid paper fi n, 8 corrections (including 4 lines crossed out) and 1 variant: stanza V, line 13: "Pour la verdure morte..." instead of "Pour la verdure neuve..." One of Éluard's small drawings depicts a cow's head pricked by a syringe; the other a rising sun wedged between two globes. Humphrey Jennings: unsigned autograph poem in black ink on tinted Arches paper, 1 correction. Facile Proie (to S.W. Hayter): unsigned autograph poem, 1 page in-4 in black ink on fi n laid paper; poem published in 1938, under this title, by G.L.M., with engravings by Hayter; later reprinted in Donner à voir. Exil (à Paul Delvaux): unsigned autograph poem, 1 page in-4 in blue ink on old Japan paper, 1 correction. The whole mounted on tabs and bound in an in-4 volume. Some of the poems have erasures and corrections, with a few small variants. Most of these poems, collected under the title Donner à voir, had seen the light of day in other publications. Precious manuscript set of one of the poet's key collections. Ex-libris G de Berny and ex-libris Edmond Bomsel engraved by Alberto Giacometti.
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