Signed limited-edition copy of Rimbaud's Vowels with prints by Cartier-Bresson.<ul><li>Arthur Rimbaud (French).</li><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>Translated by Wallace Fowlie (American).</li><li>[New York]: The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;1996.</li><li>Oblong quarto.</li><li>Illustrated with three watercolor woodblock prints by Henri Cartier‑Bresson.</li><li>Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Cartier-Bresson.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original linen with a linen clamshell box.</li></ul> "A forerunner of the surrealists, Arthur Rimbaud wrote every one of his extant poems before he was twenty years old, including the 'Sonnet des voyelles ('Vowels'), here presented in French and with the English translation by Wallace Fowlie on alternating lines. The poet has assigned colors to the vowels — A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green. 'I flattered myself that I was inventing a poetic language available ... to all the senses,' wrote Rimbaud. 'The Star Wept' — a quatrain which further explores color symbolism — is appended to 'Vowels' to complete this edition. Henri Cartier‑Bresson, who is as famous for his paintings as for his photographs, has created three swirling watercolors which further explore the evocative power of colors" (Publisher). Cartier‑Bresson’s three watercolors have been translated into multicolor wood blocks by Keiji Shinohara. Each required the cutting of twenty‑three to thirty separate blocks, one for each color.

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First English edition of The Europeans inscribed by Eli Wallach, the companion volume to Cartier-Bresson's seminal text, The Decisive Moment.<ul><li>Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;1955.</li><li>Printed in France by Draeger.&nbsp;</li><li>114 pages [xvi].</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes numerous black and white photographs.</li><li>Inscribed on front free endpaper "To "Gadge"…" from Eli Wallach.</li><li>In pictorial boards by Joan Miró, in partial scarce original acetate jacket with attached printed paper flaps, and captions booklet laid in.</li></ul> This copy of Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Europeans bears the unique provenance of being gifted from director and actor Eli Wallach to director Elia Kazan. Wallach, known for his role as Silva Vacarro in Kazan's screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll which premiered the same year that he inscribed this book, and for co-starring with Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was also a founding member of the Actors Studio. In his inscription to Kazan, he says, "To 'Gadge' From one picture-maker to another. All my love. —Eli".

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