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Rêve d'une Petite Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel

Ernst, Max

Paris. Editions du Carrefour. 1930
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.

From the edition limited to 1,063 numbered copies, with this one of 1,000 copies on vélin teinté.

Rêve d'une Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel is the second of Max Ernst's trilogy of Surrealist books with illustrations after his collages, the first was La Femme 100 Têtes (1929) and the third, Une Semaine de Bonté (1934).

[Ades 11.49].
[88 unnumbered leaves]. 4to. (238 x 188 mm). Half-title with justification verso, printed title, 2 leaves with illustration ('L'Académie des Sciences') and introductory text, section titles for each part and illustrated with seventy-eight monochrome plates printed recto only by Ernst, each with printed caption, ('I - La Ténébreuse' with 22 plates, 'II - La Chevelure' with 25 plates, 'III - Le Couteau' with 21 plates, 'IV - Le Céleste Fiancé' with 10 plates), final leaf with achevé d'imprimer recto. Original publisher's turquoise printed wrappers with text and vignette to front cover and titles to spine in black.
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