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$20.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First edition. [14 pp]. Two corners lightly bent, else very good plus in printed wrappers with some light toning. Clayton Eshleman translates this 28 February 1947 letter from Artaud to Breton, composed just before the Duchamp-Breton curated 1947 International Surrealist Exhibition. Sparrow 23. Morrow & Cooney 183.$25.00Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1972. First printing of this edition. 411 pp. Very good in printed wrappers with several reading creases to spine.$25.00San Francisco: City Light Books, 1997. First printing of this edition. xix + 356 pp. Touch of soiling to top edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with light sunning to spine. Translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti, with his introduction.$35.00NY: Paragon House (1993). First US edition. xvii + 264 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti, with his introduction. “Of all the writings on Surrealism, ‘Conversations’ is the only book to chronicle its entire history as lived from within by its founder.” - from the jacket.$45.00NY: Brentano’s 1945. Second edition, revised & enlarged. 203 pp w/index. Previous owner’s name sticker on first leaf, else very good in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.$45.00Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1969). First edition. xi + 304 pp. Very good plus in like dust jacket with a stain to rear cover. Translated from the original French by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane.$20.00London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969. First UK trade paperback printing. Small 4to. [64 pp]. Wrinkle to top edge of front cover, two small stains to rear panel. In all, very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Breton’s original French text with facing English translation by Kenneth White, who also contributed an introduction.$125.00London & NY: Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1970. First US edition. Small 4to. [64 pp]. Bumps to upper corners, inked owner’s name to first leaf. In all, very good plus in like dust jacket with a few short tears along top edge, and some trivial soiling. Breton’s original French text with facing English translation by Kenneth White, who also contributed an introduction.$25.00Berkeley: University of California (2003). First trade paperback printing. 176 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited, with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti. All texts in English translation.$1,000.00NY: View Editions, 1946. First US edition. [56 pp]. Wear along the extrems, else very good plus in like dust jacket with chipping to base and crown of spine, two edge tears, and slight loss to tips of flap folds. Cover art by Marcel Duchamp. Internal drawings by Arshile Gorky. Original French poems with facing English translations by Edouard Roditi.
$125.00Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003. First US edition. 423 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Small publisher’s sticker inside front board, else fine in full black cloth with yellow stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Claudine Frank, with her introduction. Translated from the original French by Frank and Camille Naish.$20.00Los Angeles & Cambridge: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/MIT Press (1989). First edition. 144 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown.$25.00Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (1974). First edition. xii + 253 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$15.00Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1981. First edition. 23 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with collages and “dedicated to mass uprisings.”$17.50Edinburgh: Polygon (1991). Second edition. 233 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$20.00Chicago: Black Swan Press (1974). First edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Franklin Rosemont. Surrealist Research & Development Monograph Series Number Nine.$20.00(np): Black Swan Press [1974]. First edition. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Jean-Jacques Jack Dauben. One of 300 copies.$12.50Chicago: Black Swan Press [1974]. Second printing. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Jean-Jacques Jack Dauben.$20.00Rochester: Inner Traditions (1998). First printing of this edition. xv + 303 pp. Narrow band of discoloration to recto of last leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by André Breton. Translated from the original French by Jody Gladding.$20.00Chicago: Black Swan, 1974. First edition. 19 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Poems with illustrations. Surrealist Research and Development Monograph Series Number Seven.$35.00Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (1969). First edition. xi + 240 pp w/notes. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel and some rubbing.$40.00Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1977. First edition. xxiii + 293 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.$35.00Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1974. First edition. xi + 286 pp. Light foxing to page edges, old erasures to first leaf. In all, very good plus in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed.$25.00Providence: Matrix Publications (1981). First trade paperback printing. [60 pp]. Bump to crown of spine, else near fine in wrappers and very good plus illustrated dust jacket. with a few wrinkles to front panel and light overall edge wear.$25.00London & NY: Verso (1992). First edition in English. 215 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine. Edited by José Pierre. Afterword by Dawn Ades. Translated by Malcolm Imrie.$25.00Cambridge: Radical America (nd). First edition, second issue. 26 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with one light corner bend. Poems by Rosemont, illustrated with drawings by Schlechter Duvall. Surrealist Research & Development Series Number One.$25.00Chicago: A.K.A. (1973). First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Pairs two essays, “I don’t play that game” by David Schanoes and “No more room service” by John Simmons. The whole is also undersigned by April Zuckerman. A statement by the three on the “ideological underpinnings” of the conflict that lead to the splitting up of the Chicago surrealists.$25.00NY: Thames and Hudson (1995). First US edition. xx + 424 pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket.$25.00Milan & Rome: Centro Francese De Studi/Centro Culturale Francese, Arturo Schwarz 1967. First edition. 61 pp. Small tear and wrinkle to top edge of the front panel, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Texts in Italian, French, English. Illustrated.$25.00NY: Oxford University Press, 1971. First edition. xii + 289 pp w/index. Small ink spot on bottom edge, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with chipping to base and crown, and a short tear to spine.$20.00University: University of Alabama Press (1974). First US edition. 294 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Near fine in boards with black lettering to spine and front panel. Translated from the original French by Maura Prendergast.$12.50NY & London: Columbia University Press, 1967. First edition. 48 pp w/selected bibliography. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.