La Femme 100 têtes. Notice to the reader by André Breton.
Paris, Éditions du Carrefour, 1929.
In-4, black calf in the Bradel style, smooth spine, red calf band crossing the boards and the spine horizontally, untrimmed, gilt head, covers printed on green paper and spine preserved (modern binding).
First edition: one of 900 numbered copies on tinted vellum (n° 910).
First "novel in collages" of Max Ernst published the year of the participation of Max Ernst to L'Age d'or, the film of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí: it includes 140 plates in black.
"Along the collages, of hallucinatory appearance, which do not owe anything any more to the Dada spirit still present in the first collages of the artist, runs a text which does not yield them neither in poetry nor in humor. Important
Avis au lecteur de Breton" (Biro & Passeron, Dictionnaire général du
Surréalisme et de ses environs, p. 167).
Nice copy from the collection of Marcel Jean, with his exlibris in the form of a door.
Spine of the binding slightly faded.
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