Philippe Soupault and Jacques Rigaut

(1) Philippe Soupault. Carte Postale. Paris, Editions des Cahiers Libres, 1926. Softcover with glassine wrapper, 19.5 x 14.7 cm, 36 pp. First edition of 300 numbered copies, this being one of 250 copies on tinted Normandy paper, stamped No.204. Includes a portrait of the artist on the last sheet. Glue on interior of spine has dried, yet pages remain firmly bound. Fine copy. Philippe Soupault (1897-1990) was a French writer, poet and political activist. He was a Dadaist and one of the founding figures of the Surrealist movement. Together with André Breton and Louis Aragon he launched the Surrealist periodical Littérature (1919-1924).

(2) Jacques Rigaut. Papiers posthumes. Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1934. Softcover, 145 x 213 cm, 112 uncut pp. From an edition of 300 copies on Vélin de Montgolfier, this one numbered 181. Includes a previously unpublished portrait of the artist by Man Ray. Small abrasion to blue cover, else in very good condition. Features a collection of manuscripts gathered after Rigaut's death in 1929. At the age of 30, the French surrealist poet and founding member of the Paris Dada group shot himself, using a ruler to ensurer the bullet would pass through his heart. (total 2)