Jun 13, 2002 - Sale 1939

Sale 1939 - Lot 297

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ÉLUARD, PAUL.) Two volumes Inscribed by Eluard. Illustrated. Original bindings, defective. Inscribed to friends Suzanne and Luc Somerhausen. sold as is.<> Paris, 1935; 1948

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Facile. Photographs by Man Ray. Covers dampstained bleeding into contents to title-page, slightly visible throughout contents. One of 200 Hors Commerce copies. (1935) Voir: Poemes, Peintures, Dessins. Margins toned but plates still clean and bright. One of 3000 copies. Warmly Inscribed: "á Suzou et á Luc ambassadeurs de Pierre . . .." Another Signature "Jacqueline" (Breton?) appears next to Eluard's. Geneva and Paris, (1948).<