SIMULACRE
by [Masson, André]: Leiris, Michel:
Price: $6,500.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: WRCLIT 57702
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon, [1925].
Book Description
Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon, [1925].. Small quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Spine glue dried out, otherwise a fine copy. First edition of the poet/editor/ethnographer's first book, and the second book featuring illustrations by his mentor, André Masson. The illustrations consist of six original full-page lithographs accompanying the text, and a seventh lithograph on the upper wrapper. One of ninety numbered copies on vérge d'Arches, from a total edition of 112 copies, each signed by the author and the artist. An important work in the first wave of surrealist book illustration. ARTIST & THE BOOK 191. MONOD 7071.
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