Written in 1936, this work was compiled by a key Surrealist entrepreneur to promote the movement in America. It includes: sculpture by Duchamp and Oppenheim; photographs by Atget and Man Ray; poems by Peret and Picasso; paintings by Arp, Magritte and Miro; and essays by Breton and Bachelard.
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Written in 1936, this work was compiled by a key Surrealist entrepreneur to promote the movement in America. It includes: sculpture by Duchamp and Oppenheim; photographs by Atget and Man Ray; poems by Peret and Picasso; paintings by Arp, Magritte and Miro; and essays by Breton and Bachelard.
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Seller's Description:
Reprint. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 191. Original publisher's illustrated laminated boards. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Reprint of the 1936 Black Sun Press edition. Fine in slightly chipped, very good dust jacket, with slight wear at foot of spine. Decent copy.
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Very Good. Black Sun Press, 1936. Hard cover, first edition. Has a touch of very light soiling to the cover, otherwise VG condition with no dust jacket. A nice clean copy.
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Good+ condition. Book. Quarto (4to). [iv], 191 pages of text including an index. Original hardcover cloth is heavily sunned on the spine with about 40 percent of the spine chipped off, with rubbing to the extremities, and moderate browning and soiling. Lacks the dustjacket, but protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Illustrated by 65 black & white photographs and plates. Printed on pink, green, yellow and white paper. Minor soiling to endpapers and the margins of a few pages. Limited to 1500 copies printed at the Marstin Press, New York, under the direction of and for Caresse Crosby. The cover for the book has been made from an original design by Joseph Cornell. First edition.
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Minor shelf wear and soil along the cover edges, else very good clean & sound condition / dust jacket soiled and chipped with several closed tears and a 2 inch scrapped section on the back panel, now protected in a plastic sleeve. Photographs upon request. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Size: 7.75"x9.75", 191pp., white pictorial boards, with matching designs on dust jacket designed by Joseph Cornell, text printed on various coloured papers.
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Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. A crisp, very nice copy of the 1968 re-issue of the 1936 original edition. Solid and VG+ (with just a bit of light foxing at the panels) in a bright, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with one small closed tear--and very light chipping--along the spine crown. Octavo, new introduction by Julien Levy. Coated, multi-colored paper thruout.
