Hugnet, Georges (1906-1974) Huit Jours à Trébaumec.
Paris: Les Ateliers Coet, 1969.
First edition, limited issue, tall quarto; stamped "Exemplaire de collaborateur," on the colophon, from an edition of 102 copies on BFK Rives; illustrated with 82 black-and-white photogravures after collages by Hugnet; loose as issued in original pink pictorial wrappers (lacking glassine; spine sunned; slipcase dented); housed in the original gray cloth slipcase; 15 1/2 x 7 in.
Hugnet's Surrealist masterpiece guides travelers on a hilarious romp through the French countryside. This clever title is packaged as "Guide Rose Micheline," a parody of the popular Baedeker, Guide Michelin Rouge. In Hugnet's satire, it is not a Michelin man, but a Micheline woman serving as a tour guide leading us through the fictional "Trébaumec" or as Hugnet called it, "The little lost town in Brittany, paradise regained."
