A complete run in 17 total issues of the rare avant-garde literary journal. Octavo (8 x 5 5/8 and 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). Original pictorial wrappers (first series) and original printed self-wrappers (second series). Covers of first issue detached, small loss to front cover of second issue, overall very good. Nantes: self-published, 1925-1928 and 1933-1935. This collection comprises a rare complete run of the literary avant-garde journal edited by Julien Lanoë (1904-1983), French writer and industrialist, and President of the Society of Friends of Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes from 1936 to 1970.
Issues of the first series range from 62 to 72 pages, and the second series from 8 to 16 pages. The issues are comprised of prose and poetry, with contributions from Jacques Maritain, Maurice Fombeure, Robert Garric, Jean Cocteau, Marc Boasson, Constantin Balmont, Max Jacob, Jean-Marie Terrien, Henri Barbot, Léon Bloy, Roger Lesbats, Georges Hugnet, Claude Cahun, Victor-Emile Michelet, Maurice Sachs, Louis Émié, Pierre Menanteau, André de la Perrine, Jules Supervielle, André Salmon, Gabriel Marcel, Jean Aurenche, Philippe Thual, Alfredo Gangotena, Paul Sabon, Louis Guilloux, Pierre Colle, Edward Millpotts, Pierre Reverdy, Giorgio de Chirico, Georges Syam, André Gaillard, and others.
Issue no. 4 contains the first printing of an important and often-quoted article by Claude Cahun, titled "Carnaval en chambre". In the brief four-page essay, she deals with the theme of the mask in art and society.
Scarce; as of April 2024, OCLC shows holdings at four North American libraries, not all of which are complete runs. (Inventory #: 53091)
Issues of the first series range from 62 to 72 pages, and the second series from 8 to 16 pages. The issues are comprised of prose and poetry, with contributions from Jacques Maritain, Maurice Fombeure, Robert Garric, Jean Cocteau, Marc Boasson, Constantin Balmont, Max Jacob, Jean-Marie Terrien, Henri Barbot, Léon Bloy, Roger Lesbats, Georges Hugnet, Claude Cahun, Victor-Emile Michelet, Maurice Sachs, Louis Émié, Pierre Menanteau, André de la Perrine, Jules Supervielle, André Salmon, Gabriel Marcel, Jean Aurenche, Philippe Thual, Alfredo Gangotena, Paul Sabon, Louis Guilloux, Pierre Colle, Edward Millpotts, Pierre Reverdy, Giorgio de Chirico, Georges Syam, André Gaillard, and others.
Issue no. 4 contains the first printing of an important and often-quoted article by Claude Cahun, titled "Carnaval en chambre". In the brief four-page essay, she deals with the theme of the mask in art and society.
Scarce; as of April 2024, OCLC shows holdings at four North American libraries, not all of which are complete runs. (Inventory #: 53091)