Accession number
PML 198099
Published
London : The editor...in association with the Surrealist Group in England, [1946]
Credit line
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."
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."
Description
48 pages : illustrations ; 28.5 x 22.5 cm
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.
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).
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