WOLS

First edition, one of 900 numbered copies on crèvecoeur du Marais paper, the only printing, with 15 on China and 10 hors commerce.
With 4 original drypoint illusrations by Wols.
Covers and spine slightly, but insignificantly, sunned, a good copy.

First edition, one of 900 numbered copies on crèvecoeur du Marais paper, the only printing, with 15 on China and 10 hors commerce.
With 4 original drypoint illustrations by Wols.
Two miniscule marginal wormholes to foot of lower cover, a good copy.

Louis Broder & Cie, Paris 1965, 21 x 25.5 cm, loose in chemise and slipcase.

First collective edition, one of the 150 numbered copies on vélin cuve de Rives paper, the only printing with a few hors commerce copies reserved for the contributors.
A fine copy published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of René Crevel.
With 14 original illustrations: 1 woodcut by Jean Arp, 2 drypoints by Hans Bellmer and one by Valentine Hugo, a lithograph by Wols, and 9 etchings by Max Ernst, Camille Bryen, Man Ray, Wifredo Lam, Alberto Giacometti, Oscar Dominguez, André Masson, Joan Miro, and Stanley William Hayter.
Manuscript signatures in pencil of all the illustrators to front of volume, except Wols and Oscar Dominguez, who had died prior to publication.

Rare catalog of the exhibition titled "HWPSMTB" and featuring works by Hartung, Wols, Picabia, Stahly, Mathieu, Tapie and Bryen at the Allendy Gallery at the end of April 1948.
Freckles on the boards of the shirt.
Illustrated catalog of 7 reproductions of works on display.
Texts of Wols, Francis Picabia "Explanations antimystiques", Georges Mathieu, Michel Tapie "Ethics", Camille Bryen "The eye is opposite",.