Sims Reed Rare Books×

Les Malheurs des Immortels révélés par Paul Eluard et Max Ernst

Ernst. Eluard, Paul & Max Ernst

Paris. Librarie Six. 1922
Sold
First edition of this early Surrealist / late dada collaboration between Eluard and Ernst.

From the small edition of unknown size.

This first edition of 1922 - which was issued in very small numbers - of 'Les Malheurs des Immortels' matches Paul Eluard's prose poems with Max Ernst's poetic collages. Each poem is faced with one collage.
pp. 46. 4to. (254 x 192 mm). Half-title, frontispiece verso, printed title and twenty plates, all after collages by Ernst. Original publisher's printed wrappers.
#43877

Other Items

Bigarrure
From the edition limited to 1162 copies.
£300
Icart, Louis. Hermant, AbelBigarrure1928
Les Fleurs Animées, par J.-J. Grandville
Grandville's 'Les Fleurs Animées', an excellent copy in the first publisher's cartonnage.
£7,500
GrandvilleLes Fleurs Animées, par...1847
Voyage pour l'Eternité. Service Général des...
The complete series of Grandville's very scarce unfinished suite of satirical and moralistic hand-coloured lithographs.
£12,500
GrandvilleVoyage pour l'Eternité. Service...1830
Rêve d'une Petite Fille Qui Voulut...
Max Ernst's second collage novel 'Rêve d'une Petite Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel', a very good copy in the original turquoise wrappers.
£4,500
Ernst, MaxRêve d'une Petite Fille...1930
Futurisme - Cubisme
Autograph manuscript by Gino Severini contrasting and comparing Futurism and Cubism and making reference to Seurat, Blake, Baudelaire, Apollinaire and Matisse.
£4,250
Severini, GinoFuturisme - Cubisme1918. c.1918
Promenade du Boulevart Italien (ou Petit...
A striking hand-coloured etching of 'Promenade du Boulevart Italien' by Etienne Claude Voysard after a drawing by C.
£750
Desrais, Claude LouisPromenade du Boulevart Italien...1797
Mouldy Modern. / Histoire Naturelle
'Moudly Modern', Arnaud Desjardin's artist book / homage to Max Ernst, inspired by a mould-affected copy of Ernst's original 'Histoire Naturelle'.
£1,250
Desjardin, Arnaud / Max ErnstMouldy Modern. / Histoire...2014
MERZ 4: BANALITÄTEN
Kurt Schwitters' 'MERZ 4: BANALITATEN'.
£5,500
Schwitters, KurtMERZ 4: BANALITÄTEN1923, Juli
Ainsi Va L'Amitié
An excellent copy of this scarce book by PAB marking the friendship of the four contributors in a beautiful binding by Martin.
£4,500
Char, René, Georges Braque, Mariette Lachaud, Pierre André BenoitAinsi Va L'Amitié1962
Pantagruel. Les Horribles et Espouvantables Faictz...
André Derain's superb woodcuts - the only colour illustrations he made for a book - for François Rabelais' 'Pantagruel'.
£9,500
Derain, André. Nasier, Alcofrybas (Pseud. of François Rabelais)Pantagruel. Les Horribles et...1943