Surrealism. Herbert Read (ed.) Faber & Faber, London, 1937

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First edition, second impression. Scarce in either state. Book-length catalogue of the 1936 London Surrealist exhibition held at the New Burlington Galleries, London, 11 June - 4 July 1936. With essays by André Breton, Hugh Sykes Davies, Paul Éluard and Georges Hugnet. With the uncommon iconic photo-montage dust jacket designed by Roland Penrose, including a nautilus shell and skeleton key on a typographic background. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered in black and red. 96 b/w plates. The first published appearance of many of the works illustrated. 251 pages. Including: Eileen Agar, Hans Arp, John Banting, Hans Bellmer, Constanin Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Edward Burra, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Cecil Collins, Salvador Dalí, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Mervyn Evans, Leonor Fini, David Gascoyne, Alberto Giacometti, S. W. Hayter, Humphrey Jennings, Paul Klee, Len Lye, Dora Maar, René Magritte, André Masson, Robert Medley, Reuben Mednikoff, E. L. T. Mesens, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, G. W. Pailthorpe, Roland Penrose, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Graham Sutherland, Yves Tanguy, S. H. Tauber-arp, Julian Trevelyan.

Title: Surrealism
Author: Herbert Read (ed.), André Breton, Hugh Skyes Davies, Paul Éluard and Georges Hugnet.
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Publication date: 1937 (second Impression of the 1936 first edition )
Format: Cloth-bound hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 251pp.
Images: 96 black and white plates
Condition: Very Good . With the ex libris plate of John Lyle
Stock Number: RB01822

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First edition, second impression. Scarce in either state. Book-length catalogue of the 1936 London Surrealist exhibition held at the New Burlington Galleries, London, 11 June - 4 July 1936. With essays by André Breton, Hugh Sykes Davies, Paul Éluard and Georges Hugnet. With the uncommon iconic photo-montage dust jacket designed by Roland Penrose, including a nautilus shell and skeleton key on a typographic background. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered in black and red. 96 b/w plates. The first published appearance of many of the works illustrated. 251 pages. Including: Eileen Agar, Hans Arp, John Banting, Hans Bellmer, Constanin Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Edward Burra, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Cecil Collins, Salvador Dalí, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Mervyn Evans, Leonor Fini, David Gascoyne, Alberto Giacometti, S. W. Hayter, Humphrey Jennings, Paul Klee, Len Lye, Dora Maar, René Magritte, André Masson, Robert Medley, Reuben Mednikoff, E. L. T. Mesens, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, G. W. Pailthorpe, Roland Penrose, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Graham Sutherland, Yves Tanguy, S. H. Tauber-arp, Julian Trevelyan.

Title: Surrealism
Author: Herbert Read (ed.), André Breton, Hugh Skyes Davies, Paul Éluard and Georges Hugnet.
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Publication date: 1937 (second Impression of the 1936 first edition )
Format: Cloth-bound hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 251pp.
Images: 96 black and white plates
Condition: Very Good . With the ex libris plate of John Lyle
Stock Number: RB01822

First edition, second impression. Scarce in either state. Book-length catalogue of the 1936 London Surrealist exhibition held at the New Burlington Galleries, London, 11 June - 4 July 1936. With essays by André Breton, Hugh Sykes Davies, Paul Éluard and Georges Hugnet. With the uncommon iconic photo-montage dust jacket designed by Roland Penrose, including a nautilus shell and skeleton key on a typographic background. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered in black and red. 96 b/w plates. The first published appearance of many of the works illustrated. 251 pages. Including: Eileen Agar, Hans Arp, John Banting, Hans Bellmer, Constanin Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Edward Burra, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Cecil Collins, Salvador Dalí, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Mervyn Evans, Leonor Fini, David Gascoyne, Alberto Giacometti, S. W. Hayter, Humphrey Jennings, Paul Klee, Len Lye, Dora Maar, René Magritte, André Masson, Robert Medley, Reuben Mednikoff, E. L. T. Mesens, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, G. W. Pailthorpe, Roland Penrose, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Graham Sutherland, Yves Tanguy, S. H. Tauber-arp, Julian Trevelyan.

Title: Surrealism
Author: Herbert Read (ed.), André Breton, Hugh Skyes Davies, Paul Éluard and Georges Hugnet.
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Publication date: 1937 (second Impression of the 1936 first edition )
Format: Cloth-bound hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 251pp.
Images: 96 black and white plates
Condition: Very Good . With the ex libris plate of John Lyle
Stock Number: RB01822