BONA, illustrator. PAZ, Octavio. ~ Aigle ou soleil. Paris: [Imprimerie Clerc, Saint-Amand-Montrond for] Falaize, [1957].
4to (220 × 170 mm), pp. 97, [3], 5 etched plates by Bona, ornaments and vignettes in text also by her. Original wrappers and slipcase. An excellent copy.
Number 24 of 35 copies with the plates by Bona (of which the first five copies were on Van Gelder paper, the remainder on pur fil Marais, as here). Signed by Bona in pencil. The collection (the poet’s first) was first published (unillustrated) in Mexico in 1942. The Paris edition contains parallel text in Spanish and French (the latter translated by Jean-Clarence Lambert).
Bona creates a brooding surrealist counterpart the poetry of Paz. The diplomat-poet was closely associated with the Surrealists in Paris in the immediate post-war years and conducted a long and convoluted affair with Bona (with the full knowledge of her husband Pierre de Mandiargues).