ELUARD, PAUL (pseudonym of Eugène Grindel). Autograph manuscript signed of the surrealist verses "A Toute Épreuve," n.d. [published 1930]. 33 pages, 4to, in ink on rectos only of various papers and the cardboard covers of several notebook, mostly on thin leaves of ruled notebook paper, now disbound, neatly numbered by the author, the paper browned, enclosed in a gray paper chemise and protective slipcase, gilt-lettered spine label, , consisting of Eluard's manuscript titlepage (verso with list of his other published works, some noted as being out of print), and the verses which comprise the book's three extended sectional poems, "L'Univers solitude," "Confections" and "Amoureuses," some poems showing revisions or deletions by Eluard, while the poem published as "L'Univers solitude" was originally titled "Entre la terre et l'aube." An enclosed one-page note, unsigned, in an unidentified hand, gives an account of the genesis of Eluard's book: "In 1930 I gave to Paul Eluard an example of the 'Letter to Lord Palmerston' that Victor Hugo wrote in Jersey in 1854. Travelers brought these banned writings of Hugo back to France hidden in the soles of their shoes...The format and the color [of the paper on which they were printed] gave to Paul Eluard the idea of compiling 'A Toute Épreuve,' before the end of the year 1930. The manuscript was sold by the Gallimard press in 1931..." [ With :] Three copies of the printed edition of A Toute Épreuve , Paris: Éditions Surréalistes 1930, 16mo, 16pp., folded, uncut, as issued, all but one unopened, each printed on a different color paper (gold, pink, off-white), FIRST EDITIONS -- VICTOR HUGO Lettre Lord Palmerston, Geneva & New York [but London], n.d., 16mo, 16pp., folded, uncut, as issued, printed on light blue paper, apparently one of the bibelots which inspired Eluard's "A Tout Épreuve" as recounted in the letter above -- VALENTINE HUGO artist . Pencil drawing, a portrait of Paul Eluard signed and dated 1926, 1 page, 8vo, blue pencil on laid paper , inscribed in blue by Hugo on verso: "Paul Eluard as he appeared the evening of the opening of the Surrealiste Gallery, Rue Jacques Callot ..26 March 1926."
ELUARD, PAUL (pseudonym of Eugène Grindel). Autograph manuscript signed of the surrealist verses "A Toute Épreuve," n.d. [published 1930]. 33 pages, 4to, in ink on rectos only of various papers and the cardboard covers of several notebook, mostly on thin leaves of ruled notebook paper, now disbound, neatly numbered by the author, the paper browned, enclosed in a gray paper chemise and protective slipcase, gilt-lettered spine label, , consisting of Eluard's manuscript titlepage (verso with list of his other published works, some noted as being out of print), and the verses which comprise the book's three extended sectional poems, "L'Univers solitude," "Confections" and "Amoureuses," some poems showing revisions or deletions by Eluard, while the poem published as "L'Univers solitude" was originally titled "Entre la terre et l'aube." An enclosed one-page note, unsigned, in an unidentified hand, gives an account of the genesis of Eluard's book: "In 1930 I gave to Paul Eluard an example of the 'Letter to Lord Palmerston' that Victor Hugo wrote in Jersey in 1854. Travelers brought these banned writings of Hugo back to France hidden in the soles of their shoes...The format and the color [of the paper on which they were printed] gave to Paul Eluard the idea of compiling 'A Toute Épreuve,' before the end of the year 1930. The manuscript was sold by the Gallimard press in 1931..." [ With :] Three copies of the printed edition of A Toute Épreuve , Paris: Éditions Surréalistes 1930, 16mo, 16pp., folded, uncut, as issued, all but one unopened, each printed on a different color paper (gold, pink, off-white), FIRST EDITIONS -- VICTOR HUGO Lettre Lord Palmerston, Geneva & New York [but London], n.d., 16mo, 16pp., folded, uncut, as issued, printed on light blue paper, apparently one of the bibelots which inspired Eluard's "A Tout Épreuve" as recounted in the letter above -- VALENTINE HUGO artist . Pencil drawing, a portrait of Paul Eluard signed and dated 1926, 1 page, 8vo, blue pencil on laid paper , inscribed in blue by Hugo on verso: "Paul Eluard as he appeared the evening of the opening of the Surrealiste Gallery, Rue Jacques Callot ..26 March 1926."
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