Le Miroir Noir
Paris: Editions Sagesse, n.d. [1938]. First edition. [8] pp. Unbound printed wrappers. Minor edgewear and tanning. Housed in a very attractive folding case by Julie Nadot.
The second, and last, lifetime publication by Gilbert-Lecomte, dead at age 36 in 1943 of tetanus from a dirty needle. Along with René Daumal and Roger Vailland, he was a co-founder of Le Grand Jeu, a brief artistic movement (greeted with hostility by Breton) whose unified vision resulted from extensive drug use and whose essence was described by Gilbert-Lecomte as “the impersonal instant of eternity in emptiness.” (It sent Daumal deep into the studies of Eastern religion and philosophy for which he is known.) In a review, indeed the only review, of Gilbert-Lecomte’s first book, Artaud wrote, “a genuine poet has been revealed at last.” OCLC locates three copies, all in France. Item #2574
Price: $600.00