ISOU (Jean Isidore). Esthétique du cinéma. Paris, Ur, s.d. [1953]. In-8 paperback, first separate edition of this fundamental text by Isou on cinema and his practice as a filmmaker whose theories profoundly influenced the Situationists. The text had already been published the previous year in the only issue of the Lettrist journal Ion. The back cover was illustrated in red with a text and poster from Maurice Lemaitre's film "Le film est déjà commencé?", released in 1951, which followed Isou's "Traité de bave et d'éternité" released a few months earlier. This is one of Isou's rarest texts, with an estimated print run of only a few dozen copies. (uncut, cover soiled, spine missing and restored, slight wormholes, some affecting the text, notably on the first 16 leaves, tear without missing in the margin of page 79) Expert: Mr. Nicolas Asvisio