Claude Cahun
l'écart et la métamorphose.
Paris, Jean-Michel Place, 1992
In 1937 the couple left Paris and settled in Jersey. After the German occupation in 1940, they became active resistance fighters and propagandists, printing anti-Nazi flyers and impersonating German soldiers in order to distribute them. This two-woman operation successfully gave the impression of a large-scale resistance movement for four years. They were eventually captured and sentenced to death but were freed after the Allied liberation of the Channel Islands.
First edition, number 25 of 66 large paper copies (including 6 HC) with three loose héliogravure prints with aquatint graining by Pierre Brochet (sheet: 244 x 174 mm, 9½ x 6¾ in; image: 114 x 84 mm, 4½ x 3¼ in), each blind-stamped and numbered in pencil on recto; black-and white photographic illustrations; photo-illustrated white wrappers, a fine unopened copy in the publisher's lightly toned and worn glassine; 3-309, [5]pp.
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