L'Étoile au front. A play in three acts, in prose, first performed on the Vaudeville stage on May 5, 1924. Paris, Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1925.
In-12 : pink-stained sow's skin half, flexible boards in nine boxwood strips stained with pernambuco, bordered in the gutter by a stick of the same wood, and beige suede endpapers, untrimmed, red head, cover and spine preserved, folder, case (Jean de Gonet, 1984).
First edition: copy printed on Japan paper.
The premiere, at the Vaudeville on May 5, 1924, was noisily supported by the Surrealists. Roussel reported that to a spectator who shouted to those applauding, "Hardi la claque!", Desnos is said to have replied, "We are the claque and you are the cheek." Roussel called this premiere a new Battle of Hernani.
The copy is complete with the two critical leaves of L'Étoile au front printed on normal paper.
Remarkable hinged binding by Jean de Gonet, dated 1984.
(Fabienne Le Bars, Jean de Gonet, catalogue raisonné, no. 0379.- Bibliothèque nationale de France, L'Invention du surréalisme, 2020, pp. 105-106.)
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