Free unions - Unions libres / editor Simon Watson Taylor.

Accession number: 
PML 198099
Published: 
London : The editor...in association with the Surrealist Group in England, [1946]
Description: 
48 pages : illustrations ; 28.5 x 22.5 cm
Credit: 
Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes: 

Title from editor's note, page 2 of covers.
Originally conceived as a magazine, though no other numbers published.
Compiled chiefly in 1944, not issued until summer 1946.
Prose and poems; includes some French poems and a German and a Spanish poem with English translations.
Includes "Four Scenes from Ubu Roi," translated by Taylor: pp. 7-9.
Errata slip bound in.
"Printed by Express Printers...for the Editor at 39 Markham Square S.W.3, and published in association with the Surrealist Group in England. Assistance with typography and lay-out by M.L. Berneri and Philip Sansom."

Binding: 
Bound in illustrated wrappers designed by Conroy Maddox, reproducing his 'écrémage' oil on paper drawing; calligraphic title lettered in purple and black (English on front cover, French on back).
Variant Title: 

Unions libres

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Presentation inscription in ink on inside front cover: For Gershon Legman: "Cornegoudille! Il faut tout detruire, même les ruines! Or, je n'y vois d'autre moyen que d'en équilibrer de beaux édifices bien ordonnés." -- Pere Ubu. / From Simon Warson Taylor.

Provenance: 
Inscribed by the editor, Simon Watson Taylor, to the American translator of Alfred Jarry, Gershon Legman.
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