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1928130 x 190 mm

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 25 EX. ON GREEN PAPER.
Beautiful autograph signed letter to Benjamin Péret.

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FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 25 COPIES NUMBERED HORS COMMERCE ON GREEN PAPER FROM PAPETERIES LAFUMA-NAVARRE, 
reserved to the author.
The smallest edition after a single copy on Japon impérial. The first paper in the trade was printed at 109 copies.

AMUSING AUTOGRAPH SENT SIGNED to Benjamin Péret :

"to Benjamin Péret, I
revenge for the green he made me
to see and not to hear
at the Folies-Bergères, but I forgot
sorry, your old admirer
and friend
Louis A."

Partners in the early days of Dada and the birth of Surrealism, Aragon and Péret published the famous erotic book together the following year 1929,  illustrated with 4 photolithographs by Man Ray.

Nice provenance.

Paris,Gallimard,1928.In-12, Bound,130 x 190 mm,236 [4] pp.

Spine unstained, small loss on lower headpiece.
Black half-maroquin slipcase signed Devauchelle. Smooth spine, gilt title and date.

Bio

Louis Aragon

(Paris: October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982)

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