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Price: US$497.65 + shipping
Description: Heft 4 (von 5). 28,8x23,2 cm. 40 n.n. S. mit 32 ganzseitigen Collagen von Max Ernst. Blaue Originalbroschur. Vgl. Bolliger 9, 484. - Brusberg 35.B. - Hugues-P. 11. - Eines von 800 numerierten Exemplaren auf Navarre. - Originalausgabe. - Der Roman erschien in 5 Heften, das bedeutenste Collagenwerk von Max Ernst. - Einband mit starkem Lichtrand. Rücken am Fuss etwas angerissen. Kleiner Einriss im Seitenrand des Vorderdeckels. - Innen sauber. Sprache: n.
Seller: Daniel Thierstein, Biel, Switzerland
Price: US$2802.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4 volumes, numbered: Premier cahier: Dimanche, elément: La Boue, exemple: Le Lion de Belfort, no. 39 in an edition of 816, 42 p. / 2ième cahier: Lundi, elément: L'Eau, exemple: L'Eau, no. 48/800, 36 p. / 3ième cahier: Mardi, elément: Le Feu, exemple: La Cour du Dragon, no. unreadable/800, 52 p. / 4ième cahier: Mercredi, elément: Le Sang, exemple: De Pipe, no. 416/800, 36 p. Size: 28 x 22,4 cm, total pages: 166. Condition: good, some with faded cover.
Seller: Flat & Bound c/o Integral Lars Müller GmbH, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$5494.62 + shipping
Description: 5 volumes in-4 ( 280 X 225 mm ), brochés sous couvertures imprimées des différentes couleurs et étui orné d'une vignette symboliste gravée. Beau livre d'artiste bien complet de ses 5 cahiers. EDITION ORIGINALE de ce "Roman-Collage" novateur de Max ERNST, l'artiste a réalisé 182 planches a partir d'encyclopédies et de romans victoriens créant une ambiance sombre, inquiétante, parfois dérangeante ou le fantastique le dispute au surréalisme et le symbolisme au macabre. 1 des 800 exemplaires numérotés sur papier Navarre ( N°673 ). Etui manié avec petit manque au dos, les cahiers sont en parfait état. Lithographie Beaux-Arts Edition-Originale Gravure Surréalisme
Seller: Tiré à Part, Marseille, France
Price: US$5772.03 + shipping
Description: Five parts, 4to, with 182 photo-mechanical illustrations reproducing collages by Ernst; a fine set, in the original printed coloured paper wrappers (purple, green, red, blue and yellow respectively), spines sunned, card slipcase (worn and partly defective) with green illustrative cover label.First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on papier Navarre from a total edition of 816.Une semaine de bonté is the most famous of Ernst's surrealist 'collage novels', composed entirely of recomposed images drawn from illustrations to nineteenth-century novels and scientific journals, with no easily discernible plot. Each of the seven 'days' in the 'week of kindess' is devoted to an element mud, water, fire, blood, blackness, sight, and the unknown and populated by mysterious figures, some with the heads of birds and beasts. Dark, humorous, erotic, often creepy, they seethe with repressed sexuality, violence, and anti-establishment feeling. In 'Monday' for example, the streets are stalked by the 'Lion of Belfort', while Tuesday features recurring images of drowning figures, and by the 'poemes visibles' of Friday the surrealism verges on abstraction. The work was originally planned in seven parts, but as it was less successful than hoped the final three days were issued together. Language: French
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Max Ernst. Une Semaine de Bonté: Roman. Aux Editions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1934.
Price: US$6285.10 + shipping
Description: The first limited edition of this important work of surrealism by Max Ernst, complete in five volumes housed in the original slipcase. An excellent set. The first edition of this surrealist work by Max Ernst, limited to eight-hundred copies printed on Navarre paper, of which the present collection is numbered seven-hundred-and-ten. An additional sixteen copies were printed on Arches paper. Complete in five volumes, housed in the original publisher's slipcase. In the original publisher's colourful wraps. In the original French.An innovative collage novel and artist's book by Max Ernst, comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-two plates created by cutting and re-organising illustrations from Victorian encyclopaedias and novels to present a dark, surreal world. Of these sources only a few were identified, including the novel Les Damnées de Paris by Jules Mary (1883), and a novel by Gustave Doré.Structured with seven sections spread through five volumes, each section represents a day of the week and has a distinctive theme that unites the images.Volume I: 'Sunday'; element: Mud; example: The Lion of BelfortVolume II: 'Monday'; element: Water; example: WaterVolume III: 'Tuesday'; element: Fire; example: The Dragon's HeartVolume IV: 'Wednesday'; element: Blood; example: OedipusVolume V: 'Thursday'; element: Black; example: The Rooster's Laughter; Easter Island 'Friday'; element: The View; example: Inside the View 'Saturday'; element: The Unknown; example: The Key of ChantsMax Ernst was a painter, sculptor and prolific artist, known as a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism. He was the inventor of the frottage, a technique that uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images, as well as the grattage, where paint is scraped across canvas to reveal imprints of objects placed beneath. His cottage novels were among some of his most well-known work. In the original publisher's colourful paper wraps. Externally generally very smart with minor shelf wear and occasional faint marking to the wraps. With a slight damp marking to the front wrap of vol. I and minor to vol. II. The slipcase is sound with minor chipping tot he extremities and a minor damp marking to the illustrated board and spine. Internally, firmly bound. A minor staining mark to the lower right corner of the first few leaves of volume I, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with one-hundred-and-eighty-two full page plates. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Ernst, Max. Une semaine de bonté ou Les sept éléments capitaux.. Paris: Jeanne Bucher 1934, 1934.
Price: US$6593.54 + shipping
Description: Erstausgaben. 4°; fünf farbige Orig.-Kartbde. (komplett, Violett, Grün, Rot, Blau und Gelb) in Orig.-Pp.-Schuber mit montierten grünen Deckel- und Rückenschildern; insgesamt mit 182 s/w-Tafeln nach Collagen und Zeichnungen von Max Ernst auf Navarre Papier. Jedes Heft von Hand mit der No. 352 von 800 Exemplaren nummeriert. - Premier Cahier: Le Lion de Belfort / Deuxième Cahier: L'Eau / Troisième Cahier: La Cour du Dragon / Quatrième Cahier: OEdipe / Dernier Cahier: Le Rire du Coq l'Ile de Paques; L'Interieur de la Vue; La Cle des Chants. - Heftrücken leicht verblasst. Sehr saubere Exemplare. Schuber mit wenigen Lagerspuren.
Seller: Antiquariat Ulrich Doege, Köln, NRW, Germany
Price: US$6593.54 + shipping
Description: 5 vol. in-4, brochés, couvertures de différentes couleurs, sous étui illustrée d'une vignette sur le plat supérieur et d'une étiquette de titre au dos. Édition originale de cet extraordinaire roman graphique comprenant 182 planches, dont 173 collages et 9 dessins. Tirage limité à 816 exemplaires, celui-ci numéroté sur papier Navarre (n°498), en excellente condition.
Seller: Librairie Vignes Online, Paris, France
Price: US$7143.00 + shipping
Description: 5 Bände. 4°. Mit 182 photolithogr. hergestellte Collagen von M. Ernst. 5 farbige OKart. in Orig.-Pappschuber mit Rückenschild u. Deckelbild. Brusberg 35 B. Castleman 161. Slg. Claasen 17. Lang, Surrealismus 30. Monod 4323. - No. 343 von 800 handschr. num. Exemplaren auf "papier Navarre" (GA 816 Exemplare). - Seltene erste Ausgabe eines der Hauptwerke des Surrealismus, "the largest of Ernsts inventive collage novels" (Castleman). - Mit eigenhändiger Widmung und kleiner Zeichnung von M. Ernst für den Filmproduzent Peter Schamoni (1934-2011). Schamoni hat 1991 einen Dokumentarfilm über Max Ernst veröffentlicht. - Die 'Semaine de bonté' hat ihren Namen ironisch denn die Themen dieser fünf Bände kreisen um Verfolgung, Terror (es ist das Jahr 34 von Paris aus gesehen), um Katastrophen, Wassereinbrüche, Feuer, Verhexung, Überfall und Verbrechen. Da ist es, als ob die Sicherheit, welche das Lebensgefühl der 'belle époque' ausmacht, wie eine Eisdecke springe, sie splittert. Charme schlägt um in Entsetzen. Es sind böse Capriccios" (Erhart Kästner in: Maler machen Bücher. München 1981). - "Im Gegensatz zu seinen früheren, additiv konstruierten dadaistischen Collagen dekonstruiert er hier - in seiner surrealistischen Phase - das Vorgefundene" (Sybille Bock im Katalog der französischen Malerbücher der Sammlung Classen). - Die collagierten Ausschnitte aus der "Gebrauchsliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts in der die Schnittstellen und Farbnuancen der verschiedenen Teile nicht mehr zu erkennen sind, wurde jedes Bild vereinheitlicht und so erhielt der ganze Roman seine stilistische Einheit" (Béatrice Hernad in "Papiergesänge"). - Außergewöhnlich schönes und sauberes Exemplar. Sprache: französisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Haufe & Lutz, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany
Price: US$7472.68 + shipping
Description: Mit 182 Tafeln nach Collagen und Zeichnungen von Max Ernst. Lang, Surrealismus, 30. - Papiergesänge 58. - Castleman 161. - Monod 4323. - Katalog Classen 17. - Brusberg 35 B. - Eines von 800 Exemplaren auf Papier "Navarre", (GA 816), jede Broschur und der Schuber von Hand num. - Die Erstausgabe eines der Hauptwerke des Surrealismus. - Die Rücken der Hefte 1-4 verblasst, Vorderdeckel von Heft 2 mit kleinem Eselsohr. - The indicated shipping costs refer to books weighing up to one kilogram. - Bücher, die schwerer als ein Kilogramm oder größer als 35 x 25 cm sind, werden als Paket verschickt und kosten innerhalb Deutschlands bis zu zwei Kilogramm 6 Euro, darüber hinaus 7 Euro Porto. - Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 8° (28 x 22,5 cm), fünf Originalbroschuren in Violett, Rot, Blau und Gelb, im Originalschuber mit grünem Deckelbild und Rückentitelschild.
Seller: Galerie Joy Versandantiquariat UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Boppard, Germany
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: One of 800 numbered copies (of a total edition of 816 copies). Five volumes, in publisher's slipcase. Each volume is numbered 335, interestingly some are stamped and some are hand-numbered. The five volumes are as follows: Premier Cahier: Dimanche / Elément: La Boue. Exemple: Le Lion de Belfort. Deuxième Cahier: Lundi / Elément: L'Eau. Exemple: L'Eau. Troisième Cahier: Mardi / Elément: Le Feu. Exemple: La Cour du Dragon. Quatrième Cahier: Mercredi / Elément: Le Sang. Exemple: Oedipe. Dernier Cahier: Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi / Eléments: Le Noir; La Vue; Inconnu. Exemples: Le Rire du Coq, L'Ile de Paques; L'Interieur de la Vue; La Cle des Chants. Slight sunning to spine of each volume, as often seen, hint of wear to spine tips. Overall an excellent set. One of Ernst's most important and extraordinary works, a narrative without text, in which he collaged the images from nineteenth century engravings. This was the third of his collaged novels, after La Femme 100 Têtes (1929) and Rêve d'une Petite Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel (1930). Breton said of them, "the pages which he has enchanted rather than merely 'decorated' are so many eyelids that have started to flutter." Castleman, A Century of Artists' Books, 161. Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era, 107. Andel, Avant-Garde Page Design, p. 327. Rainwater, Max Ernst: Beyond Surrealism, 33.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Complete in five volumes, each one of 800 numbered copies on Navarre paper. Publisher's variously-colored wraps, housed in a custom slipcase. Text in French. Near Fine with slightly rubbed and shelfworn wraps, repairs to spines, faint crease to front wrap of third volume. Slipcase lightly sunned and worn. A great association copy as it belonged to French poet, surrealist, and Dadaist Benjamin Peret. Peret's ink inscription is on the first volume, "Exemplaire de Benjamin Péret : Les statistiques nous apprennent que les dimanches deviennent extrêmement rares. Tant mieux. L'ami Max." (Translated into English: "Benjamin Péret's copy. Statistics tell us that Sundays are becoming extremely rare. So much the better. The friend of Max.") Peret and Ernst both were leading lights of the surrealist movement and adept at creating collages. This proto-graphic novel is an early, acclaimed example of the use of collage in book design with 182 images cut up and rearranged from Victorian encyclopedias and novels. From the collection of French economist and political adviser Jacques Attali with his bookplate on the chemise.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Ernst, Max. UNE SEMAINE DE BONTE.. Paris, Jeanne Bucher, 1934.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: #653, 5 volumes in a rather worn and soiled box but intact.the individual notebooks are fine.NO SCANS.(VVclst2Z)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.