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Exceptional avant-garde books — from important first editions to illustrated and experimental publications.
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Rare Books, Living Legacies
We specialize in rare, illustrated editions from the avant-garde movements. Every book is accompanied by high-quality visuals, detailed reports, and scholarly context.
Apollinaire, Guillaume · Marcoussis, Louis
Eaux-fortes pour Alcools de Guillaume Apollinaire
In June 1934 Louis Marcoussis completed his remarkable cycle of etchings for Guillaume Apollinaire’s Alcools. Issued small (duodecimo), the suite is loose-leaf in a folder and slipcase devised by the artist. Forty plates make up the set: thirty-four numbered for individual poems, a full-page portrait, a title, a full-page plate for the contents, and three vignettes. Marcoussis renders Apollinaire’s imagery in precise, rhythmic line, balancing lyricism with cubist clarity. The result is among the most coherent graphic readings of Alcools, carefully paced and sequenced. This copy is one of the very scarce author’s copies on Arches wove.
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Picabia · Ribemont-Dessaignes, Georges
Jésus-Christ rastaquouère
This 1920 work is a key text of Parisian Dadaism, authored by one of the movement's central figures, Francis Picabia. It is a raw, challenging, and satirical attack on the hypocrisy of bourgeois morality and the religious dogmas of the time. Picabia's prose is an explosion of language, imbued with the Dadaist spirit of nihilism, absurdity, and provocation. The collection combines essays, short texts, and poetry to deliver a sharp and hilarious critique of Western culture. The book, with its explicitly shocking title, definitively established Picabia as a radical voice in the post-war avant-garde. The rare original edition, published by 'Collection Dada', is a tangible artifact from the movement's heyday.
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€800
Albert-Birot, Pierre · Survage, Léopold · F. Torowai (Albert-Birot)
La triloterie
La triloterie is an early bibliophile edition by Pierre Albert-Birot at his own Éditions SIC, emblematic of Paris’s experimental moment around 1920. Printed in small numbers on Arches and featuring an engraving by Léopold Survage, it couples poetry with visual avant-garde. The plain wrappers suit SIC’s sober independent-press ethos. The title plays with chance and language—three miniature dramaturgies that tilt the everyday. Survage adds a geometric, rhythmic counterpoint. This copy bears traces of a partly erased presentation, heightening its historical aura. A compact, precisely made object for the discerning bibliophile.
Ill Book
€850
Roth, Dieter
Trophies. 125 Two-Handed Speedy Drawings
In 1979, Edition Hansjörg Mayer issued Trophies. 125 Two-Handed Speedy Drawings, an artist’s book in which Dieter Roth multiplies his drawing practice through the book form. The English issue shown is yellow cloth in a matching slipcase. The colophon specifies an English edition of 1,000 copies, clothbound in slipcase, each supplied with an original “trophy” by Roth. Thus every set couples the printed sequence with a unique artist’s intervention. With speed, humour and self-scrutiny, Roth deflates the very notion of the prestigious trophy. The set fuses serial publication with a one-off—exactly the tension that animates his work.
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€1,100
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When a Signature Becomes Provenance
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The Fragile Meaning of ‘Complet’
In auction descriptions, “complete” often sounds reassuring — but it is only meaningful when verified against the colophon, the justification, and the bibliography. For The Hidden Page, clarity begins where vague market language ends.
THE BOOK AS ARTEFACT
“The Hidden Page” is a curated destination devoted to rare, illustrated works from the avant-garde and surrealist movements—books that embody both intellectual depth and material presence.
The identity rests on three pillars:
The poetry of the object — expressed through bindings, engravings, typography, and signatures that elevate a book into a cultural artefact.
The historical context — where each work is situated through its provenance, bibliographic references, and its role within the evolution of artistic movements.
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