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Book Description

[Paris]: Louis Broder, [1965].. Small quarto (24.5 x 20 cm). Loose signatures laid into printed wrappers. Illustrated with fourteen original etchings, lithographs, etc. Very fine, in vellum backed chemise and slipcase. First collective edition of these texts written by Crevel between 1923 and 1934. The original illustrative material is distinguished, and consists of a color woodcut by Arp; three dry-points (two by Hans Bellmer and one in color by Valentine Hugo); a color lithograph by Wols; two black & white etchings (one by Giacometti and one by Oscar Dominguez); and seven color etchings (by Camille Bryen, Max Ernst, S.W. Hayter, Wilfredo Lam, Man Ray, André Masson and Joan Miró). In addition to 150 numbered copies printed on Rives, this is one of an unknown number of copies designated as an "Exemplaire d'Editeur." All copies were signed by the artists on a separate bifolium, with the exceptions of Wols and Dominguez, whose contributions were posthumous. Laid in front is a numbered (25/70) advertising broadside for the book, printing an image by Ernst. MONOD 3321.

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