View Paris March-April 1946. A Double Number
New York: View, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Small Folio. 52pp. Original color illustrated wraps with black, blue and brown lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Volume VI. Cover is a photograph of the sculpture Constantin Brancusi's studio in Paris. With contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre's "The nationalization of Literature," a poem and the prose piece "It's Your Funeral" by Jean Genet, Albert Camus' "The Stranger: An Excerpt," as well as contributions by Henri Michaux, Julien Gracq, Francis Lee, Lionel Abel, Maurice Blanchard, Toursky, Rene Char, Andre de Richaud, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Germain Brice, among others. Illustrated with reproductions and photographs by Schall (page 8), Lee (pp. 8,16), Berson (8), Adam (10), Picasso (6,16,24), Wols (13,21), Brancusi (17), Herold (18,20), Dominguez (19), Dubuffet (22,26), Coutaud (25), Hausmann (28), Laurens (28), Ozenfant (29), Prinner (29), Seraphine (29), Lobo (29), Beaton (30). The photograph of Jean Genet is by Studio Rodriguez, Paris. Wraps with light foxing along top edge and lightly rubbed along spine of back cover. Else in very good+ condition. g to vg+. Item #47945
Price: $100.00