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Catalogue of books on surrealism and related

7268 Allais, Alphonse Like Mother... and Other Tales Kickshaws Press, Paris, 1980. Illustrated limited edition, this being no.332/490 copies. Near fine in sl.worn wraps. Hilarious and black tales by a contemporary of Jarry. Click here to order $45

41278 Aragon, Louis The Adventures of Telemachus University of Nebraska, 1988. Hardcover, remainder, new. Aragon's dadaist counter-novel, based on Fenelon's seventeenth century educational epic. The elements of parody are quickly subsumed in representations of the subconscious, the signifying power of dreams. Click here to order $20

61772 Artaud, Antonin (ed. Evelybe Grossman; tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith) 50 Drawings to Murder Magic Seagull Books, London, 2008. Quarto hardcover, 82 pp. Fine in like dustwrapper. Reproduced notebook pages of texts and sketches. Artaud's last writings. Click here to order $35

32318 Ball, Hugo & Hammer, Jonathan Hugo Ball's Tenderenda The Fantast Yale University, 2002. Hardcover, colour illustrations. Remainder, new. A new translation of Ball's visionary post-Dada novella together with Hammer's imagery inspired by it. Additional essay and commentary. Click here to order $25

33574 Bayer, Konrad Selected Works of Konrad Bayer Atlas, London, 1984. Paperback, b&w illustrations. Page edges spotted. Cover worn along edges and corners. Good. Member of the so-called 'Vienna Group', Bayer combined apparently irreconcilable elements - violence, hermeticism, pessimism, ecstasy - and influences (including surrealism) in a small but intense body of work. Click here to order $10

43923 BRETON, Andre Anthology of Black Humor City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1997. Paperback, (xix, 356pp). Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Minor shelf and edge wear to cover; otherwise very good. Founder and principal theorist of the Surrealist movement, this anthology contains his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. Forty five authors are included. The entries range from the acerebic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg, and Duchamp to the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, from the wry missives of Rimbaud and Jacques Vache to the manic paranoia of Dali, from the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred Jarry and Arthur Craven to the offhand hilarity of Apollinaire at his most spontaneous. Click here to order $20

51372 Breton, Andre Le Surrealisme et la Peinture Nouvelle Edition 1928-1965 Gallimard, 1965. Quarto, 427 pp. Light spotting to page edges, moderate wear to wrapper edges with scrapes to corners. Very good. Colour and black and white plates. The definitive edition. Click here to order $150

32221 Brown, Bridget (intro) Another World: Wolfli, Aloise, Muller Third Eye Centre, 1978. Paperback 55pp., numerous monochrome and colour plates. Minor wear. Very good. Catalogue of an exhibition held in the United Kingdom in 1978-79. Click here to order $35

31867 Bunuel, Luis The Exterminating Angel: DVD Madman. New. Region 4. Click here to order $38

10486 Bunuel, Luis The Exterminating Angel/Nazarin/Los Olividados Lorrimer, London, 1972 Paperback. Moderate wear. Good. Minimal tape damage to inside cover, some foxing to prelims. Book dealers stamp. Sl crease to cover. Scripts of the films with accompanying stills. Click here to order $15

59427 Bunuel, Luis Los Olvidados: DVD The Young and the Damned Umbrella New. Region 4. Click here to order $17

60062 Bunuel, Luis That Obscure Object of Desire: DVD Universal. New. Region 4. Click here to order $18

30557 Bunuel, Luis Un Chien Andalou/Las Hurdes: 2 DVD Umbrella. New. Region 4. Click here to order $30

31868 Bunuel, Luis Viridiana: DVD Madman. New. Region 4. Click here to order $38

55817 Bunuel, Luis The Young One: DVD Madman. New. Region 4. Click here to order $38

42394 Crevel, Rene Putting My Foot in it Foreword by Ezra Pound. Introduction by Edouard Roditi Dalkey, Normal, 1992. Paperback, remainder, new. "Crevel was born rebellious the way others are born with blue eyes" - Phillippe Soupault. Loosely structured around a luncheon attended by thirteen guests, one of the classic surrealist novels and a critique of post-World War I capitalist bourgeois France. Click here to order $14

51693 Dali, Salvador The Secret Life of Salvador Dali Vision, London, 1948. Limited edition of 1000, 423pp., b&w illustrations. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted; staining to upper edges; inner front hinge repaired with cloth tape. Cloth boards with gilt titles; moderate wear to edges; bumped corners with minor fraying. No dustwrapper. Good. Click here to order $175

64517 Dali, Salvador The Secret Life of Salvador Dali Dover, New York, 1993. Paperback, 400pp., b&w illustrations with colour illustrations on cover versos. Minor edge and corner wear, creased spine and upper front corner. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $18

34540 Daumal, Rene Le Contre-Ciel Tusk Ivories, New York, 2005. Remainder, paperback, new. The first book published by Daumal, who later turned to prose. His concerns often parallelled those of the surrealists. Click here to order $12

32306 d'Harnoncourt, Anne; McShine, Kynaston (eds) Marcel Duchamp Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Prestel, 1989. Hardcover quarto, 346pp., 12 colour and 417 monochrome illustrations. Owner's name on half-title page. Page edges foxed, spotted; decorated boards rubbed and slightly discoloured, but firm and bright; dustwrapper a little spotted, upper edge creased, but bright and intact. Very good in like dustwrapper. Professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Marcel Duchamp has changed the history of modern art. His impact on the twentieth century is rivaled only by that of Matisse and Picasso, and no other figure has so directly influenced recent art forms. This book, besides presenting a documented photographic survey of Duchamp's works, offers ten original essays by eminent scholars and critics. The essays cover Duchamp's explorations in the areas of language, poetry, the machine, alchemy, and the epistemology of art; on a more personal level, they treat the milieux and the friendships that shaped his character, the life style to which he adhered, and the influence his example has exerted. Passages from his lectures are included in the book, as well as comments and tributes by more than fifty colleagues, friends, and interested observers. Documentary illustrations, a chronology and a bibliography complete the volume. Click here to order $75

34261 Duchamp, Marcel [Naumann, Francis M. & Hector Obalk, eds; translated by Jill Taylor] Affectt Marcel The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp Thames & Hudson, London, 2000 Hardback. New. Remainder. Arranged chronologically, translated and annotated. Click here to order $22

35923 Ducornet, Rikki The Fan-Makers Inquisition A Novel of the Marquis de Sade Ballatine Books, New York, 2000. Paperback. Discolouration to page edges, shelf wear to cover; very good otherwise. Click here to order $13

42866 Ducornet, Rikki The Jade Cabinet Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, 1993. Hardcover. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Novel. Click here to order $17

10117 Embiricos, Andreas Amour, Amour Green Integer, Kobenhavn, 2003. Paperback. Fine. Embiricos brought both surrealism and psychoanalysis to Greece. This is a collection of some of his stories, or "personal mythologies". Click here to order $10

66057 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (ed) City Lights Anthology City Lights, San Francisco, 1974. Quarto paperback, 250 pp. Owner's name, spotting to page edges, very minor wear. Very good to near fine. Contributions by Ginsberg, Marcuse, Bukowski, Kerouac et al. Selection of Junta Greek poetry and substantial section on the surrealist movement in the US. Click here to order $30

51374 Fini, Leonor with the collaboration of Jose Alvarez Le livre de Leonor Fini Peintures, dessins, ecrits, notes La Guilde du Livre et les Editions Clairefontaine, Lausanne, 1975. Folio, 246 pp. Few spots to page edges, very moderate wear only; near fine in dustwrapper lightly worn along upper front edge with small scrape to corner. Black and white and colour reproductions and photographs. A "scrapbook" of Fini's life and work, accompanied by a personal commentary. Click here to order $300

56479 Ford, Mark Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2001. Hardback. Remainder. New. Click here to order $18

32264 Gibson, Ian et al. Salvador Dali: The Early Years Thames & Hudson, London, 1994. Hardcover quarto, 248pp., 100 colour and 160 monochrome illustrations. Page edges foxed; boards clean and solid, slightly rubbed at edges, corners bumped, minor fraying; dustwrapper bright and intact with a few small stains. Very good in like dustwrapper. Professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. By focusing on the roots of his genius, this highly original book encourages a reassessment of Dali's complexity and importance as an innovator. Presenting a multiple perspective on his life and work through a variety of fascinating sources, it has been designed to recreate the distinctive look of publications of the period and contains extensive previously unpublished documentary material. It also includes an extended selection of his texts in translation, an illustrated chronology, many drawings and about 60 colour plates of the most significant paintings of the period. Click here to order $55

32200 Golding, John Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even Penguin Press, 1973. Hardcover, 116pp., 62 monochrome plates. Owner's name on half-title page. Foxed, spotted prelims, page edges; boards bowed, sunned at edges, few small bumps, but solid and clean; dustwrapper clipped, slightly sunned, creased at edges, some fraying, small chips. Good/very good in good dustwrapper. Professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. An exploration of the historical context (cubism, futurism, dadaism), literary antecedents (especially Jarry and Roussel), followed by an analysis of the imagery of the Glass. The author realises that no explanation or solution of the work is possible (or perhaps even needed if there is, as Duchamp himself pointed out, "no problem"), but nevertheless effectively illuminates some of its labynthine recesses. Click here to order $30

51375 Guibbert, Jean Paul Leonor Fini Graphique Editions Clairefontaine, Lausaane, 1971. Square quarto, 176 pp. Foxed prelims and spotted page edges with small light stain, wear and some yellowing to wrapper, some light scraping. Very good. Colour and black and white plates, some tipped in. Click here to order $120

63940 Hill, Anthony (ed.) Duchamp: Passim A Marcel Duchamp Anthology Gordon & Breach Arts International, East Roseville, 1994. Quarto hardcover, 189pp., b&w & colour illustrations. Minor wear only; a few spots on page edges and slightly scuffed dustwrapper. Otherwise near fine. Marcel Duchamp is associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. Through his interest in movement, the dynamics of machinery and optical experiments, he also anticipated Kinetic and Op art. Duchamp revolutionised the concept of art in the 20th Century. This anthology of articles and illustrations explores not only the essence of his art but also his contribution to chess, film, music, humour and eroticism. Click here to order $55

36236 Jablonski, Joseph The Dust on my Eyes is the Blood of your Hair Black Swan Press, Chicago, 1980 Stapled paperback. Black and white illustrations. Minor wear, very good. Poetry. Adherant of the Surrealist Movement in the US. Click here to order $7

36237 Jablonski, Joseph (drawings by Franklin Rosemont) In a Moth's Wing: Surrealist Research & Development Monograph Series Black Swan Press, Chicago, 1974 Stapled paperback. Minor wear, very good. Illustrated in black and white. Poetry. Click here to order $7

65131 Lloyd, Michael & Gott, Ted & Chapman, Christopher (curators) Surrealism Revolution by Night National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1993. Large quarto paperback, 330pp., colour illustrations. Minor scuffing and edge and corner wear to cover with a few marks on page edges. Otherwise very good to near fine. This exhibition catalogue focuses on the major European artists associated with surrealism and on Australian artists who drew, in very different ways, upon the ideas of the surrealist. The exhibition also touches briefly on surrealism in England, Japan and the USA. It begins with Dawn Ade's extended catalogue entries for twenty two works in the exhibition, ranging from Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, 1913 to Dorothea Tanning's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, 1946. Cumulatively these provide an introduction and overview of the development of surrealism in Europe through its art. The catalogue concludes with Christopher Chapman's essay on surrealism in Australia. Click here to order $30

42904 Loy, Mina The Last Lunar Baedeker Jargon Society, Highlands, 1982. First edition. Small quarto hardcover, 334pp., slightly soiled and spotted page edges. Dustwrapper slightly worn along edges and corners. Not price-clipped. Very good otherwise. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] The original publication was a mere 60 pages. Here, not only her poetry, but tracts, manifestoes, documents of a curious life, are gathered. Click here to order $140

59940 Oppenheim, Meret (ed. Thomas Levy with contributions by Belinda Grace Gardner) From Breakfast in Fur and Back Again The Conflation of Images, Language, and Objects in Meret Oppenheim's Applied Poetry Kerber, Bonn, 2003. Quarto hardcover, 255pp., colour & b&w illustrations. Minor shelf wear to illustrated boards. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good to near fine otherwise. Accompanying essays, interview and biography. Click here to order $40

7939 Pell, Derek Scar Mirror: signed copy Cat's Pajamas Press, Oak Park, 1978. Few faint spots on front cover; else fine. Signed by author. Click here to order $30

61392 Poling, Clark V. Andre Masson and the Surrealist Self Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008. Quarto hardcover, 201 pp. Colour and black and white plates. New. Remainder. A reading of Masson's paintings, drawings and writings, expoloring the ways in which the self is figured - as fragmented, dissolved, merged with other selves and with the natural environment, and, ultimately, reconstituted and consolidated. Click here to order $40

58753 [Rosemont, Franklin (ed)] Arsenal 2 Surrealist Subversion Chicago, Summer 1973. Quarto paperback. Scrape to spine. Else fine. Second anthology of translations and original texts by members of the Surrealist Movement in the US. Click here to order $30

39812 Rosemont, Franklin (ed) Surrealism and its Popular Accomplices City Lights, San Francisco, 1980. Quarto, paperback, 120 pp. Minor wear to card covers; else very good. Illustrated. Articles by American surrealists on comics, films, cartoons, blues and jazz, dance etc. Together with related translations. Click here to order $20

7311 Russell, John. Max Ernst Life and Work. Abrams, New York, 1967. Hardcover, quarto, 360 pp., 50 colour and 446 monochrome illustrations and 16 photographs. Prelims foxed, page edges foxed; boards show minor wear at edges, slightly rubbed, bumped, but clean and firm; dustwrapper sunned, slightly discoloured, some creasing/fraying, few small/medium tears. Good to very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] In this full-length study of Max Ernst's achievement as a maker and manipulator of unforgettable images, John Russell has had the advantage of close and lengthy collaboration with the artist. Ernst himself sees no fundamental difference between poetry and painting, and he is himself an accomplished poet in three languages: due attention is paid, therefore, to the inter-penetration of art and literature in his activity. Ernst's career is examined, also, in the context of the general history of the European imagination. The book, like the career, touches life at many points and is as relevant to the history of ideas as it is to the history of art. Click here to order $75

34644 Sanouillet, Michel & Peterson, Elmer (ed.) The Writings of Marcel Duchamp Da Capo, New York, 1973. Paperback, b&w illustrations. Very slight spotting to page edges, minor wear to edges and corners of cover. Very good. Two interviews, two statements, the so-called "texticles" or experimental writings, the notes for the Large Glass, and the puns he constructed for his female alter ego, Rrose Selavy. Click here to order $15

59408 Savinio, Alberto The Lives of the Gods Atlas, London, 1991. Paperback, 138pp., Remainder, new. "Turn the dream inside out, as if taking off a sock..." Savinio's retelling of classical myths. Click here to order $12

58129 Schneede, Uwe M Surrealism Translated by Maria Pelikan Harry Abrams, New York, 1973. Quarto paperback, 144pp., colour & b&w illustrations. Scuffed cover with edge and corner wear; spine and corners creased, otherwise, very good. Uwe Schneede analyses the symbology, imagery, and underlying technical processes and aesthetics of Surrealism, and sees in its 'accidental' or spontaneous elements the roots of Tachism and Abstract Expressionism. The introductory essay is illustrated with more than 70 black and white reproductions that include key paintings and drawings, objects, photographs of the leading figures in the movement, documents, and manifestos. The 41 colourplates that follow constitute, in effect, a retrospective exhibition of major Surrealist canvases - begining with the proto surrealist Metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and culminate with a canvas by Matta. Click here to order $20

43044 Selsdon, Esther Leonor Fini Parkstone Press, 1999. Hardcover, 119pp., colour illustrations. Minor spotting to upper page edges. Otherwise, very good to near fine in like dustwrapper. Synoptic overview of the artist's work and concerns. Click here to order $22

58610 Serna, Ramon Gomez de la Dali McDonald, London/Sydney, 1984. Hardcover, square quarto, 238pp., b&w and colour illustrations. Endpapers and page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges; scuffed corners; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. When Ramon Gomez de la Serna undertook a study of Salvador Dali, Dali himself promised to illustrate the text with original drawings. Unfortunately, the death of the author in 1963, prevented the project from being realized until the 1970s, when the study, almost complete, was discovered posthumously among his papers. Dali kept his word and this book is the result. Supported by other writings, photographs and illustrations, Dali is made up of three sections. The first is largely composed of the essay and drawings and a chronology that charts the life and works of the surrealist artist from 1904 to 1983. The second section contains more than 80 colour reproductions of Dali's works, shown in their entirety and in detail. The third section contains an essay by Eleonora Bairati on the Dali Theatre Museum of Figueras, with colour photographs of the shrine erected by the painter to himself, and an interview with Dali by Balltasar Porcel, illustrated with photographs of the artist at his home in Port Lligat. In addition, excerpts from Dali's own writings illuminate his life and work from his love for his wife, Gala, to his interpretation of Millet's Angelus. Click here to order $60

57317 Short, Robert The Age of Gold Surrealist Cinema Creation Books, 2003. Small square quarto paperback. 188 pp. Black & white illustrations. Minor wear to card cover; else very good. Surrealist cinema, as epitomised by Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or, was a knife through the very heart of the establishment - a scorpionic, scatological black joke galvanised by the irrational, the uncanny and the spectre of de Sade. Author Robert Short revisits these two seminal films and documents the experimental cinematic theories of Antonin Artaud and the filming of his Surrealist scenario The Seashell and the Clergyman. Short also looks at the work of Hans Richter, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Click here to order $20

37076 Suther, Judith D Kay Sage: A House of Her Own Solitary Surrealist University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. Remainder. Hardback in dustwrapper. New. Colour and black and white plates. Biography and study of the American artist, her paintings and writings. Click here to order $25

36273 Svankmajer, Jan Alice: DVD Siren. New. Region 4. Click here to order $30

51697 Svankmajer, Jan Little Otik: DVD Siren. New. Region 4. Click here to order $33

51546 Szeemann, Harald et al Le Macchine Celibi/The Bachelor Machines Alfieri, Italy, 1975. Hardcover, quarto, 236pp., b&w illustrations. Endpapers and page edges toned and spotted. Boards lightly marked with sellotape marks. Dustwrapper toned with sellotape marks on front and inside; lightly worn at edges. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Bilingual Italian and English edition. Essays by Marc Le Bot, Bazon Brock, Michel Carrouges, Michel de Certeau, Jean Clair, Peter Gorsen, Gilbert Lascault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gunter Metken, Alain Montesse, Rene Radrizzani, Arturo Schwarz, Michel Serres and Harald Szeemann. Click here to order $175

41841 Tomkins, Calvin The World of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968 Time-Life International, 1973. Quarto, illustrated boards. Faint spotting to page edges; else very good to near fine. Black and white and colour illustrations. Tomkins later wrote a full biography of Duchamp. This is more a "Life and Times", but quite engaging and well illustrated. Click here to order $20

14917 Wolfli, Adolf Adolf Wolfli Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, 1976. Quarto, 123 pp. Colour and monochrome plates, chronicle presentation of artist's life and work on inner fold. Light wear to illustrated boards; else near fine. Essays by many hands on all aspects of Wolfli's creativity: his art, writing and compositions. Click here to order $70

51373 Xuriguera, Gerard (text) Oscar Dominguez Filipacchi, Paris, 1973. Quarto, 79 pp. Faint foxing to prelims; else near fine in dustwrapper moderately worn at edges, few small chips and light stain along upper margin of rear panel. B&w and colour illustrations. One of the few books devoted to this surrealist painter. Click here to order $40