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Benjamin PÉRET. Le Grand Jeu. Paris, Librairie...

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Benjamin PÉRET. Le Grand Jeu. Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1928. In-4, paperback, filled cover. First edition. Photographic portrait of the author in frontispiece. Signed autograph letter on the title page to Remedios Varo: To Remedios / whose two breasts are my two / hemispheres / Benjamin Péret / December 27, 1936 In August 1936 in Barcelona, Benjamin Péret met Remedios Varo Uranga (1908-1963), a Spanish painter linked to the Logicophobists group. She became his companion, sharing his life in France and then in Mexico until 1947. Worn cover with missing parts.