Arp, Jean

Poupees

Gottingen, Steidl, 2008. Sewn cloth, 120 pp. 8"-10". Fine. Photo reproductions of Arp's decoupages in the shape of the human torso that he called, 'dolls'. Some shots of him in his studio. Text in Italian and in English, 60 pp. in colour.

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Book number: 1003

Catalogue: Dada & Surealisme

Arp, Hans and Yves Troendle

The Swallow's Testicle

Toronto, Nietzsche's Brolly, 1987. Perfectbound, 68 pp. 8.5"-11". As New. Intervention at the typesetter stage into 20 of Arp's French poems, translated into English by Yves Troendle,. Plus 2 original poems by Troendle. 10 different page designers.

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Book number: 489

Catalogue: Dada & Surealisme

Behar, Henri

Le Theatre Dada et Surrealiste

Paris, Gallimard, 1979. Perfectbound, 443 pp. 4.25"-7". Good. Texte en francais -away from naturalism or symbolism into the play of surprise/chance and the marvellous as begun by Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Roi'.

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Book number: 494

Catalogue: Dada & Surealisme

Blythe, Sarah Ganz and Edward D. Powers, editors

Looking at Dada

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2006. Perfectbound, 76 pp. 9"-11". As New. Detail from a Man Ray installation on the front clay-red , fold-in cover to a full-tilt Max Ernst on the back, this volume covers the broad range of Dada antics, collages and manifestos with panache.

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Book number: 1262

Catalogue: Dada & Surrealisme

Breton, Andre Rene Char, Paul Eluard; Keith Waldrop, tr

RALENTIR TRAVAUX / SLOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Cambridge MA, Exact Change, 1990. Perfectbound, pp. 6"-8". good. These three poets, who were friends, met in Avignon in March of 1930 to merge their writing styles into poems by two and often all three of them. Gold and black wraparound cover shows foxing.

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Book number: 1571

Catalogue: Dada & Surrealisme

Conley, Katherine and Pierre Taminiaux, editors

Surrealism and its Others

New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2006. Perfectbound, 146 pp. 6"-9.25". As New. Nine essays in dialogue with Andre Breton expanding towards an aesthetically informed anti-colonialism.

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Book number: 820

Catalogue: Dada & Surrealisme

Ernst, Max

A Natural History of the Mind

New York, Carosso, LLC Fine Arts, 2003. Perfectbound, 48 pp. 9"-9". As New. Green fold-in card wrappers to this catalohue for the exhibition of the same name mounted by Carosso LLC Fine Arts in New York Feb. 5 - April 15, 2003. 34 full-colour pages.

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Book number: 1543

Catalogue: Dada & Surealisme

Kellerer, Christian

Objet Trouve und Surrealismus: Zur Psychologie der modernen Kunst

Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1968. Perfectbound, 134 pp. 4.5"-7.5". Fine. Draws parallels between the surrealist's attitude towards the given and that of Ch'an Buddhism in China. Text ganz auf Deutsch. Small tear to upper front page.

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Book number: 637

Catalogue: Dada & Surrealisme

Kuenzli, Rudolph E., editor

Dada and Surrealist Film

Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1998. Perfectbound, 254 pp. 6"-9". Good. 13 original essays commenting on the differences in these 2 approaches, as regards specific films. Bibliography of Dada and Surrealist Film also useful. Dedication in black marker at front.

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Book number: 1603

Catalogue: Dada & Surrealisme

Littlefield, Angleika

The Dada Period in Cologne

Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 1988. Staplebound, 36 pp. 8.5"-12". Good. Catalogue to an Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition in Toronto. Startling black and red matte card-stock covers with matching vellum end-papers.

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Book number: 589

Catalogue: Dada & Surealisme

Marranca, Bonnie & Gautam Dasgupta, ed.

Theatre of the Ridiculous / revised and expanded edition

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Perfectbound, 190 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Mint. Performing Arts Journal (PAJ) reprint with 18 pages of stills from performances. Considers the theatricals of Jack Smith, Ronald Tavel, Charles Ludlum & Kenneth Bernard. So new, some pages still uncut.

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Book number: 1378

Catalogue: Dada & Surealisme

Mody, P.

P. Mody's Dada Archive

Windsor ON, stained paper archive, 1997. Metal clasp, 104 pp. 15"-8.5". As New. Visual poetry; ranging from the dirty to the opaque in its plotted overlays. Launched to commemorate the performance of Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Roi'.

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Book number: 595

Catalogue: Dada & Surealisme

Ray, Man

Man Ray

New York, Aperture, 1988. Perfectbound, 96 pp. 8"-8". Fine. Number 8 in Apeture's Masters of Photography Series. 40 recto plates in b x w; Tears graces the cover. Essay by Jed Perl.

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Book number: 1546

Catalogue: Dada & Surealisme

Schwarz, Arturo; Ludwig Zeller and Susana Wald, collages

Pieces of Dreams

Toronto, Oasis, 1977. Perfectbound, 32 pp. 6.5"-6.5". Fine. Stark, surrealist collages set to orchestrate brief poems. Original collages focus the front and back paper card deecal covers printed brown with red endpapers.

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Book number: 840

Catalogue: Dada & Surrealisme

Selz, Peter

Max Beckmann

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1964. Perfectbound, 160 pp. 8.5"-8". Good. Catalogue copy for travelling exhibition of the painter's work in 1964-65. 'Self-Portrait with Beret' (1934) reproduced on yellow cover; 3 triptyches full-colour fold-ins. Minor peels.

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Book number: 878

Catalogue: Dada & Surrealisme