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La Femme 100 Têtes

Ernst

Paris. Editions du Carrefour. 1929
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A rare example of Max Ernst's collage novel La Femme 100 Têtes on Hollande Pannekoek paper.

From the edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies, with this copy one of 88 on Hollande Pannekoek (second paper after 12 on Japon Impérial and 3 hors commerce also on Japon Impérial).

La Femme 100 Têtes is the first of Max Ernst's trilogy of Surrealist books with illustrations after his collages. The collages, in the manner of nineteenth-century engravings, were made by Ernst from old etching and engraving plates and each feature a descriptive caption by Ernst. The 'Avis au Lecteur' serving as preface was written by André Breton.
4to. (255 x 195 mm). Leaf with justification verso, half-title, printed title, 3 leaves with Breton's 'Avis' and illustrated with 147 monochrome plates printed recto only after collages by Ernst, final leaf with achevé d'imprimer recto. Original publisher's turquoise printed wrappers with text and vignette to front cover and titles to spine.
#43873

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