La Femme 100 têtes
Paris, Édition du Carrefour, (December 20) 1929.
1 vol. (185 x 245 mm), unpaginated. Bradel-style binding in long-grained black morocco with a frame border, gilt title on spine, front cover decorated with an X-ray under mica, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved, box (binding signed Loutrel).
First edition. One of 900 copies on tinted vélin paper (no. 237). Preface by André Breton, presenting the 146 collages by Max Ernst.
“If it is the feather that makes the plumage, it is not the glue that makes the collage”: here Max Ernst presents his first collage novel, steeped in hallucination and already far removed from the Dada spirit of his beginnings, unfolding as a sequence of poetic and humorous inventions. André Breton emphasized the value of the cuts made within the conventional imagery of a “story” and of the diversions worked upon the “already seen” or “already used,” through which Surrealism could summon a marvelous, dreamlike, unreal and illusory world.
A striking binding by Patrick Loutrel, who inset an X-ray of a spine into the front cover.
Corner restoration to the leaf bearing the final plate.
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