[Miro, Joan] Paalen, Alice
Sablier Couche
(Paris): Editions Sagesse, 1938. First and limited edition, #58/75 numbered copies, signed by the author Alice Paalen. Square 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by Joan Miro, printed in red on hand-trimmed yellow paper, and signed and numbered by him (#58/75). Original limp grey hand-made wrappers, printed in black, in original glassine, scattered wear; text leaves unopened; light offsetting from frontispiece onto title-page; light dampstaining in top corner of text. Dupin 20

A handsome first edition of Mexican-French poet turned painter Alice Rahon's second book of poetry, published under her married name Paalen. Born Alice Marie Yvonne Philippot in 1904, she adopted her mother's maiden name, Rahon, following her parent's divorce. In 1934 she married Austrian-Mexican painter and philosopher Wolfgang Paalen, and in 1935 they joined the Surrealists in Paris, where she was known primarily for her poetry throughout the 1930s. In 1939 she and her husband moved to Mexico City, where she became increasingly interested in painting, blending elements of traditional and popular Mexican art. She helped her husband organize the International Surrealist Exhibition in Mexico City, and they divorced in 1947. She worked primarily in painting until her death, in 1987.

A lovely copy, with a fine original print by Joan Miro.

Provenance: Collection of Tonian Genstein Volk, Pennsylvania