Accession number
PML 197733
Published
Paris : Noël Arnaud, [1951]-
Credit line
Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collectionon the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2017.
Notes
No. 1 (1951) - no 11 (1964).
The magazine ceased publishing between Oct. 1953 and July 1963.
Number 4/5 dated with Pataphysical calendar: clinamen & merdre 79.
Issue no. 4/5 1/2 (oct. 1952) devoted to De quarante & quelques sortes de 'oui' avec la façon de prononcer by Marcel Béalu.
Special issue no. 10 comprises Dubuffet's L'hourloupe (1963), printed on black paper and illustrated in color with reproductions of the artist's calligraphic text in white (Cf. Webel). Cataloged separately as PML 197733.8.
Issue no. 11 (1964) devoted to Almanach, écrit et illustré par Albert Humbert, originally published in his Almanach de Boquillon for 1869 [?].
Issue no. 7/8/9 printed on salmon-colored paper.
Early issues printed "des presses du Mesager boiteux de Paris"; later issues printed at Imprimerie spéciale du Petit Jésus.
Laid into library's copy of no. 7/8/9 is the illustrated prospectus for that issue, printed on orange paper (32 x 24 cm, folded to 16 x 12 cm).
The magazine ceased publishing between Oct. 1953 and July 1963.
Number 4/5 dated with Pataphysical calendar: clinamen & merdre 79.
Issue no. 4/5 1/2 (oct. 1952) devoted to De quarante & quelques sortes de 'oui' avec la façon de prononcer by Marcel Béalu.
Special issue no. 10 comprises Dubuffet's L'hourloupe (1963), printed on black paper and illustrated in color with reproductions of the artist's calligraphic text in white (Cf. Webel). Cataloged separately as PML 197733.8.
Issue no. 11 (1964) devoted to Almanach, écrit et illustré par Albert Humbert, originally published in his Almanach de Boquillon for 1869 [?].
Issue no. 7/8/9 printed on salmon-colored paper.
Early issues printed "des presses du Mesager boiteux de Paris"; later issues printed at Imprimerie spéciale du Petit Jésus.
Laid into library's copy of no. 7/8/9 is the illustrated prospectus for that issue, printed on orange paper (32 x 24 cm, folded to 16 x 12 cm).
Description
volumes : illustrations ; 16-20 cm
Provenance
Richard Praeger, probably from the library of Raymond Queneau.
Binding
Stapled self-wrappers, except for issue no. 10, which is bound in black wrappers and decorated on cover with Dubuffet's lettering in white; and issues no. 7/8/9 and 11, which have green and orange wrappers respectively and are illustrated with a cover design by Robert Willems.
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