Brumes Blondes, first series 1964-1967
Issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. Set of all published issues of the first series of the sole Surrealist periodical in The Netherlands, with No.1 lacking one sheet. Edited by Her de Vries and Laurens Vancrevel and published in a small edition by Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes in Amsterdam. No. 7 was never released.
Includes: No. 1. (incomplete). Brumes Blondes Bulletin d'Information Surréalistes No.1 August 1964. 34 x 21.5 cm. Stencilled pamphlet, folded and heavily creased. Edition of 50. Text in French and Dutch. The second sheet, which seems to be part of this issue, is missing; No. 2. Autumn 1964. Hand-stamped wrapper made of packing paper, 22 pp. stencilled on white & pink paper. Fine; No. 3 Autumn 1965, 29 pp., stencils on green paper. Colour is fading, else good; No. 4 August 1966, 52 pp. Extensive inventory of publications about Surrealism in The Netherlands. Dark red paper wrapper (frayed around edges); No. 5 August 1966, 10 pp. Good copy; No. 6 September 1966, 12 pp. Toning on cover, else fine; No. 8 Feb. 1967. Wrapper of packing paper with a handwritten title. Edition of 100. Contains a stencilled list of publications about Surrealism. Text in French. Very good. Added: (1) BB Nouvelles Série No.1 Spring 1968. (2) Her de Vries, Lautréamont in Nederland, 1966. (total 9)