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PAUL NOUGÉ: SUBVERSION DES IMAGES - DELUXE EDITION OF TWENTY-FIVE NUMBERED COPIES
(NOUGÉ, PAUL). Nougé, Paul. Marcel Marien, Editor. Bruxelles, BELGIUM: Les Levres Nus, 1968. First Edition 1/25 Deluxe. Narrow 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. 48pp, 19 b&w illustrations. Text in French. "Subversion des Images: Notes illustrées de dix-neuf photographies de l'auteur" is a posthumously-published 1968 collection edited by Marcel Marien of nineteen Surrealist photographs taken between December 1929 and February 1930 by the influential Belgian intellectual, literary figure, and artist published here for the first time accompanied by his own notes. A bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe Les Levres Nus first printing limited to twenty-five copies NUMBERED (21/25) in red ink on the rear colophon still in the publisher's unprinted glassine jacket, as issued, from a total print run of a mere two hundred and thirty. Inventory Number: 024516