first edition
1938 · Paris
by Paalen [Rahon], Alice. Joan Miró, ill
Paris: Éditions Sagesse, 1938. First edition. [16] pp. String-tied printed handmade paper wrappers. Some toning to the extremities of the covers, else a fine copy.
One of 75 numbered copies, signed by Paalen at the colophon, with a signed and numbered frontispiece by Miró, printed in red chine-colle style on yellow paper mounted on the text paper. Paalen's second book of poetry, influenced by her trip to India with Valentine Penrose in 1936. It can be seen as a transitional work: "The poet Alice Paalen went through a looking glass into Mexico to become and remain the painter Alice Rahon. The rich hour-glass image inscribed in the title of Rahon's second poetry collection, the short plaquette Sablier couché, predicts her passage from one art to another and the correspondence maintained between them, much like Breton's 'communicating vessels' of dream and reality."
Reference: Colvile, Georgiana M. M. "Through an Hour-Glass Lightly: Valentine Penrose and Alice Rahon Paalen." In Russell King and Bernard McGuirk, eds. Reconceptions: Reading Modern French Poetry. University of Nottingham Press, 1996. pp. 81-112. (Inventory #: 2442)
One of 75 numbered copies, signed by Paalen at the colophon, with a signed and numbered frontispiece by Miró, printed in red chine-colle style on yellow paper mounted on the text paper. Paalen's second book of poetry, influenced by her trip to India with Valentine Penrose in 1936. It can be seen as a transitional work: "The poet Alice Paalen went through a looking glass into Mexico to become and remain the painter Alice Rahon. The rich hour-glass image inscribed in the title of Rahon's second poetry collection, the short plaquette Sablier couché, predicts her passage from one art to another and the correspondence maintained between them, much like Breton's 'communicating vessels' of dream and reality."
Reference: Colvile, Georgiana M. M. "Through an Hour-Glass Lightly: Valentine Penrose and Alice Rahon Paalen." In Russell King and Bernard McGuirk, eds. Reconceptions: Reading Modern French Poetry. University of Nottingham Press, 1996. pp. 81-112. (Inventory #: 2442)
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