Les Clowns.

Rémy (Tristan)

Les Clowns.

Description: FIRST EDITION, vignette to title-page and illustrations to the text, monochrome plates, pp. 484, [2], 8vo, original cream wrappers with colour-printed illustration to front, lightly dustsoiled overall, the backstrip a little creased with some chipping at ends and some browning from dried adhesive visible to joints, the joints with short splits at foot, bookplate of Georges Sadoul to flyleaf (see below), edges untrimmed, tissue jacket, good

Publication Details: Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1945

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the half-title: 'Pour Georges Sadoul, cet essai sur un monde où il y a tant de choses à dire à l'ami et au camarade'. The bookplate of the recipient, designed by Max Ernst no less, is on the flyleaf. Sadoul was a surrealist, associated for a time with Nancy Cunard and her Hours Press, but his lasting legacy has been his writing on the history of film. The use of the word 'camarade' has a political basis - reflecting their shared Marxist beliefs, manifest in Rémy`s case in his interest in proletarian literature and performance.An advance copy (printed 'S.P.', i.e...moreInscribed by the author on the half-title: 'Pour Georges Sadoul, cet essai sur un monde où il y a tant de choses à dire à l'ami et au camarade'. The bookplate of the recipient, designed by Max Ernst no less, is on the flyleaf. Sadoul was a surrealist, associated for a time with Nancy Cunard and her Hours Press, but his lasting legacy has been his writing on the history of film. The use of the word 'camarade' has a political basis - reflecting their shared Marxist beliefs, manifest in Rémy`s case in his interest in proletarian literature and performance.An advance copy (printed 'S.P.', i.e. 'Service de Presse', to backstrip and rear cover), with the original prospectus for this work laid in. HIDE