This Quarter Vol. V, No. 1 September 1932

Surrealist Number

edited by Edward W. Titus

guest editor André Breton 

Paris:  Edward W. Titus, 1932  

Softback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Gray wraps have titles and graphics in orange and black ink. 
• Oversized wraps show some bumping, closed tears, chips where they wrap around text block.  Corners are scuffed.  See photos. 
• Original glassine wrapper sealed at back cover.  Wrapper shows bumping, chips, and tears.  See photos.
• Spine has black text and is bright with bumped ends.
• Binding is unread. 
• Interior exhibits scattered foxing on first and last few pages. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have untrimmed foot edges, are foxed, display unopened edges.  See photos. 
• PS2024.0918

6.5 x 9 inches

A crucial key issue of this avant garde magazine, scarce in the dustwrapper.  A very good copy in the original unprinted glassine wrapper (uncut), toned and worn at edges.  All edges of the textblock are untrimmed and uncut, with light foxing to the extremities of pages. 

For this Surrealist Number of September 1932, André Breton was guest editor.  Contributors include Luis Buñuel, René Char, Giorgio di Chirico, René Crevel, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Valentine Hugo, Greta Knutson, Man Ray, Beniamin Péret, Yves Tanguy, Tristan Tzara. 

This Quarter was founded in 1925 by the American expatriate poet Ernest Walsh (1895-1926) and the English suffragette Ethel Moorhead (1869-1955).  Only two issues of the quarterly had been published when Walsh died of consumption at the age of thirty-one.  After a period of turbulence and only sporadic publication, This Quarter was taken over in 1929 by Edward W. Titus, owner of the important Montparnasse rare bookstore At the Sign of the Black Manikin (opened in 1924) and founder of Black Manikin Press.  Under Titus's stewardship the magazine was more professionally run but less adventurously edited.  It ceased production in 1932 after a run of just eighteen issues, having published work by most of the leading Paris expatriates of the day, as well as many little-known writers -- Ernest Hemingway and William Carlos Williams among them -- who were about to become very well-known indeed.

Editorial Offices in Paris.  Distribution in Great Britain and Dominions by William Heinemann Ltd. (London) and in U.S.A and Canada by Ray Long and Richard R. Smith (New York).   

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