MAX ERNST. Patrick Waldberg. — Max Ernst. A monograph.

Société des Éditions, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small square 4to. 443pp + [ii]. Cream linen-covered boards, lettered in black and green at the spine, and in four different shades of green at the upper board. Illustrated with over two-hundred and twenty reproductions, twenty of which are in colour, and including one monochrome and four colour folding plates. Several areas of discolouration to the cloth. Some creasing to the margins of the folding plates where they have been inexpertly closed, a short tear to the fore edge of the first leaf, and a protection fault crease to the upper corner of six adjacent leaves. Residue mark to an unprinted preliminary leaf from where an additional colour reproduction, clipped from a newspaper, had been affixed by a former owner. A good sound copy of this retrospective of Ernst's mammoth output (the layout, colour printing, and composition was all overseen by the artist). Lacking the unprinted acetate protector. Text in French., Good