Documents N°8 de la deuxième année

First edition of this issue of this important journal dealing notably with archaeology, fine arts and ethnography and whose principal editors were Georges Bataille and Carl Einstein.
A small tear at the foot of the spine, a slight tear without loss at the foot of pages 21-22.
Contributions by Heinrich Ehl: "L'heure de naissance de l'art européen occidental", Georges Bataille "La mutilation sacrificielle et l'oreille coupée de Vincent Van Gogh", Michel Leiris: "Le "caput mortuum" ou la femme de l'alchimiste", Jean Bourdeillette: "Franz Xaver Messerschmidt", Zdenko Reich: "Le massacre des porcs", Carl Einstein: "L'enfance néoloithique (Hans Arp)", Jacques Prévert, Maurice Leenhardt.
Issue illustrated with photographs by Jacques-André Boiffard.