BRETON (André). L'Amour fou. Paris, Gallimard,... Lot 7

BRETON (André). L'Amour fou. Paris], Gallimard, (Nrf, collection " Mé_x0002_tamorphoses "), 1937. In-16, 176 [of which the first 2 are blank]-(4 of which the last 3 are blank) pp. in metallic tinted goatskin (silver and gilt), smooth spine with lettered title in appliques, boards decorated with pieces of varnished me_x0002_tallised grey leather with erotic connotations and notches painted in grey, grey suede lining and endpapers, gilt edges, covers and spine preserved, brown calfskin spine and flaps folder, lined case (Leroux). ORIGINAL EDITION, ONE OF THE 9 HEAD COINTS ON JAPAN, the only ones on large paper with 35 on pur fil and a few on geranium paper. 10 leaves of plates on both sides on coated paper included in the pagination, bearing 20 photographs in reproduction including 7 pictures by MAN RAY, 4 by BRASSAÏ, one by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, one by Dora MAAR, one by Rogi ANDRÉ. L'AMOUR FOU, AN ALLEGORICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STORY. Based on the objective facts of his meeting with Jacqueline Lamba on 29 May 1934 ("this woman was scandalously beautiful", p. 63) and the beginnings of their love affair, André Breton proposes a meditation on love at first sight, which dispossesses the human being of his reason, on what makes an encounter happen, questions chance, necessity, availability, and launches into a rereading of their love affair by detecting all sorts of concordances, associations, influences, and signs. He ends the book with an open letter to their daughter Aube ("dear Écusette de Noireuil [...]", p. 167) which he concludes as follows: "I wish you to be madly loved" (p. 176). SUPERB "EROTIC-VEILED" BINDING BY GEORGES LEROUX.