Spirales
Laurens, Henri. Dermée, Paul
(Paris). (Paul Birault). 1917
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The édition de tête of Paul Dermée's first book illustrated by Henri Laurens.
From the edition limited to 226 numbered copies, with this from the édition de tête of 5 large paper copies on Japon Impérial numbered in Roman numerals ('IV'), signed in black ink by Laurens and with the two original etchings; only 26 copies were issued with the engravings.
Also included, loosely inserted, is the original prospectus for 'Spirales' indicating that one additional copy of the book was printed on Japon Impérial: 'plus un exemplaire d'auteur numéroté o'.
' ... et tout notre passé / qui s'en va en spirales ... '. (From the text).
Paul Dermée's (1886 - 1951) first collection of verse features extensive avant garde typographical caprice - one poems is printed horizontally - and a beautiful mise en page. The majority of poems are dedicated and the dedicatees are revealing of Dermée's aspiration: Pablo Picasso, Henri and Marthe Laurens, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, Pierre Reverdy, Blaise Cendrars, Erik Satie, Cocteau, Georges Braque, Jacques Lipchitz and André Derain among others all had poems addressed to them. Dermée knew the majority, introduced to them by Apollinaire, his collaborators on and contributors to the reviews 'SIC and 'Nord-Sud'. Dermée was the recipient in 1917 of a letter from Apollinaire in which Apollinaire coined the neologism 'surrealism'; Dermée later founded the very short-lived dada review 'Z' which appeared in a single number only.
'C'est le premier livre de Paul Dermée et la première illustration originale de Henri Laurens ... 'Spirales' est écrit dans l'esprit Apollinaire, où s'harmonisent parfaitement les deux gravures de Laurens. Le livre fut réalisé en 1917 à l'occasion du séjour de Paul Dermée à La Simplette, Etang-la-Ville, dans le vosinage de Henri Laurens, où il s'associa à Pierre Reverdy pour la parution de 'Nord-Sud'.' (de Parallèlement à Chanson Complète).
[see 'de Parallèlement à Chanson Complète' pp. 87 - 90].
From the edition limited to 226 numbered copies, with this from the édition de tête of 5 large paper copies on Japon Impérial numbered in Roman numerals ('IV'), signed in black ink by Laurens and with the two original etchings; only 26 copies were issued with the engravings.
Also included, loosely inserted, is the original prospectus for 'Spirales' indicating that one additional copy of the book was printed on Japon Impérial: 'plus un exemplaire d'auteur numéroté o'.
' ... et tout notre passé / qui s'en va en spirales ... '. (From the text).
Paul Dermée's (1886 - 1951) first collection of verse features extensive avant garde typographical caprice - one poems is printed horizontally - and a beautiful mise en page. The majority of poems are dedicated and the dedicatees are revealing of Dermée's aspiration: Pablo Picasso, Henri and Marthe Laurens, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, Pierre Reverdy, Blaise Cendrars, Erik Satie, Cocteau, Georges Braque, Jacques Lipchitz and André Derain among others all had poems addressed to them. Dermée knew the majority, introduced to them by Apollinaire, his collaborators on and contributors to the reviews 'SIC and 'Nord-Sud'. Dermée was the recipient in 1917 of a letter from Apollinaire in which Apollinaire coined the neologism 'surrealism'; Dermée later founded the very short-lived dada review 'Z' which appeared in a single number only.
'C'est le premier livre de Paul Dermée et la première illustration originale de Henri Laurens ... 'Spirales' est écrit dans l'esprit Apollinaire, où s'harmonisent parfaitement les deux gravures de Laurens. Le livre fut réalisé en 1917 à l'occasion du séjour de Paul Dermée à La Simplette, Etang-la-Ville, dans le vosinage de Henri Laurens, où il s'associa à Pierre Reverdy pour la parution de 'Nord-Sud'.' (de Parallèlement à Chanson Complète).
[see 'de Parallèlement à Chanson Complète' pp. 87 - 90].
[48 unnumbered leaves]. Small folio. (330 x 255 mm). Leaf with half-title recto and justification verso, printed title (matching the front cover), inserted leaf with Laurens' original etching and Dermée's verse, final leaf with achevé d'imprimer verso. Original publisher's brown paper wrappers with oval excision from front wrapper to show Laurens' cover etching, an oval of the original printed glassine with title retained and laid down on later glassine, later marbled board protective box.
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