Paris: Éditions Petropolis, 2006.
Price: $750.00
Unbound. Limited edition. Folio. Measuring approximately 10½" x 14½". Three bifolia laid into a printed portfolio. Prints Éluard's poem in French, in English as translated by Samuel Beckett, and a woodcut by Michael Caine, as well as title and limitation pages. Fine. Published in an edition of 149 copies, this is one of 99 "sur papier chiffon" in pearl-white Japanese wrappers (also seen in gray wrappers printed in red and maroon), initialed by Michael Caine on the limitation page. Éluard's poem was first published in 1924 in *Mourir de ne pas mourir*; Beckett's translation first appeared in *This Quarter - Surrealist number* in 1932. (N.B. In 1984 Caine published this poem in an edition of only 15 copies, in a smaller format and with a different illustration.) A nice production. Six copies in *OCLC*.
Item #576230
