superb association copy - inscribed to André Breton
PENROSE, Valentine.
Le Nouveau Candide.
Paris, Éditions G.L.M., 1936.
One of 175 numbered copies on vélin, from a total edition of 200. A short prose piece, informed by surrealist automatic writing, about a young boy who is 'a life-size portrait of a child of good family born around 1900,' who pursues extraordinary adventures throughout Europe. The frontispiece is by Wolfgang Paalen, the then husband of Alice Paalen Rahon, with whom Penrose was extremely close.
First edition, inscribed by the author to André Breton, number 61 of 175 copies on vélin, from a total edition of 200; frontispiece by Wolfgang Paalen, internally fine; original black wrappers, yellow title label pasted on front cover; a fine copy, housed in custom black and pink folding box by Julie Nadot (unsigned).
Stock code 112312
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Le Nouveau Candide.
WOOLF, Virginia.
Orlando: A Biography.
1928.
A signed, limited edition copy of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicholson, Vita Sackville-West's son, declared Orlando to be 'the longest love letter in literature', 1928
£6,500.00
WOOLF, Virginia; STRACHEY, Lytton.
Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey Letters.
1956.
A handsome first edition of Virginia Woolf anf Lytton Strachey Letters, Edited by Leonard Woolf and James Strachey.
£225.00
PLATH, Sylvia.
Two Uncollected Poems.
1980.
A limited edition copy of The Uncollected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
£325.00
