| Description | The Magnetic Fields/ by André Breton and Philippe Soupault, transl. & intro. by David Gascoyne; edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Soupault and Gascoyne (Breton having died in 1966), this copy with the translator’s autograph corrections to nine pages of his introduction; loosely inserted are a 4p.ts.draft of that introduction with tippex erasures, autograph alterations and additions: an early,variant, unedited version of the text; a page of the translator’s ms.notes; a ts. version of the section “White Gloves” (p.79–81: 2pp. fscp, tippex erasures and autograph corrections, numerous variations from the published text); also to Gascoyne from Soupault, 3 March 1985 (in envelope, stamped and franked, also containing a full-page article on Soupault, by Elena Andreas, from Libération, 2 April 1985), and from his co-author’s widow, Elisa Breton (in envelope, stamped and franked), 30 June 1986; and an APPCS (Man Ray, André Breton; to Gascoyne from Karl Orend, [1992] (enclosures moved to Gascoyne Archive GMA A51/03 |