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Sun & Moon, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. First Edition. A collaborative work between these two prominent Surrealists, in which Ernst produced 19 illustrations for the first chapter of Crevel's 1927 novel Babylone, translated into English by Kay Boyle and published by Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press. "The white-on-black images do a fine job of representing the dark visions of death and desire that come to the young girl in Crevel's story: "What is death? What is a whore? Death is something like Cousin Cynthia." Ernst chose quotations from the book to appear as titles under the prints. He also collaborated with the book's binder, A.J. Gonon, to produce the black binding with gold tooling that is reminiscent of the bindings on old nineteenth-century sentimental fictions" (Roth 101, p.66). Slocum (1914-1997) was an American diplomat, literary agent, and bibliophile, whose collection of James Joyce material supplied the basis for the now standard bibliography (by Slocum and Herbert Cahoon), and whose… Read More

Paris: The Black Sun Press. 1931. First edition. First edition. A rare, inscribed presentation copy from Max Ernst to James Stern. Publisher's black buckram, decorated in gilt to a design by Max Ernst. Illustrated with 19 original photograms by Max Ernst, each with a glassine guard, with the title printed in red. Black endpapers. Housed in a bespoke quarter morocco solander case. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with rubbing and fraying at the spine tips and corners. The contents are entirely complete, clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. This work is a fragment from Crevel's novel Babylone. The 19 photograms of Ernst's frottages were completed with the collaboration of Man Ray in his studio after days of trials, with Ernst's rubbings on transparent paper serving as the negative. Ernst had developed his frottage technique as a visual counterpart to the Surrealist ideal of "automatic writing," and the dark visions he produces here perfectly… Read More

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. First edition. Translated by Kay Boyle. [8], 38, [8] pp. Publisher's black cloth boards, decorated in elaborate gilt and blind, designed by Ernst in collaboration with A.J. Gonon. Nineteen photograms with tissue guards, with text printed in red. One of 200 copies on "finest bristol paper," of a total edition of 255 copies. Some minor wear to head and tail of spine, faint old tidemark to lower corner of leaves, near fine. Housed in a custom modern slipcase. A major surrealist collaboration. Crevel's text was the first chapter of his novel Babylone, translated by Kay Boyle at the request of Black Sun publisher Caresse Crosby. The nineteen photograms (or cliché-verres) illustrating the book were produced using a similar process to Man Ray's rayographs. Ernst's images were made by combining textural rubbings and line drawings on sheets of thin translucent paper, and then using those sheets as negatives to create a reverse image on photosensitive paper. These were then… Read More

Paris: Black Sun, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Translated from the French by Kay Boyle. Illustrated by Max Ernst. One of 200 copies on Bristol paper, this being copy number 52. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Max Ernst on the frontispiece illustration. Furthermore, it is in the deluxe 50-copy black binding with black endpapers. Finally, the book is housed in the publisher's slipcase which was intended only for the deluxe edition. Such discrepancies were not uncommon for this aristocratic press, whose attention to bibliographical accuracy can generously be described as casual. The 19 photograms that illustrate the book constituted a pioneering artist's technique by Ernst, who was assisted in the endeavor by fellow Surrealist Man Ray. Carefully pencil-rubbed (what the French call "frottage") translucent papers were employed as negatives to create the photograms. In essence then, a photogram is a photograph made without the use of a camera. The three principals of… Read More

1931. ERNST, Max. Mr. Knife and Miss Fork. Text by René Crevel, translated by Kay Boyle. With 19 photograms of frottages by Max Ernst. 8vo, bound in the original full black cloth, elaborately gilt and embossed designed by Ernst on covers with additional hand-painting, in an elegant half morocco box by Mercher. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. A celebrated and rare surrealist collaboration. This is one of the special 50 copies on Hollande paper. The frontispiece is signed at the bottom by Max Ernst and the half-title signed by Crevel. For these special copies the front cover of the binding has been hand painted and the rear cover has been gilt, supposedly by Max Ernst. The nineteen photograms illustrating the book were produced from Max Ernst's frottages, created by rubbing translucent paper on top of a textured surface/image. Using this "impression" on the special paper, Ernst then shot light through the thin paper onto photosensitive paper underneath, creating a type… Read More

Paris: Black Sun Press,, 1931. Dark visions of death and desire" - a stunning example of the Black Sun Press's work First edition, sole printing, number 27 of 50 copies signed by Crevel on the half-title and Ernst on the frontispiece and printed on Hollande paper, from a total edition of 255 copies. This is one of the most celebrated books of the Black Sun Press and a cornerstone of Surrealist literature. Crevel was a student of 18th-century rationalism "when he encountered the surrealists and, joining this group of iconoclasts, came to believe that Reason had betrayed the mind" (Balakian). He was infamous for instigating group seances and hypnotic sleep sessions, with participants including André Breton and Robert Desnos. Despite Surrealism's secular roots, the group's desire to liberate imagination from the confines of reason owed a significant debt to Western Esotericism. However, after Crevel's attempt to orchestrate a group suicide and an incident involving Desnos and a carving knife, Breton… Read More

Paris.: The Black Sun Press., 1931.. Original blind and gilt-stamped cloth with hand-colouring after a design by Ernst, knife and fork design on spine, black endpapers, t.e.g., black calf-backed felt-lined moiré cloth board chemise with gilt titles to spine and matching slipcase.. 8vo. (184 x 126 mm).. Leaf with monochrome photogram frontispiece signed in black ink by Max Ernst, half-title with Crevel's signature in blue ink, printed title in red and black with knife and fork vignette and Kay Boyle's English trasnlation of Crevel's French text illustrated with 18 hors texte original monochrome full-page photograms by Max Ernst (in collaboration with Man Ray), each with tissue guard-leaf with printed title in red, leaf with justification, blank leaf and final leaf with list of Black Sun publications; printed text in English with pagination, photogram titles and initials in red throughout. An excellent copy of the édition de tête of Mr. Knife, Miss Fork with Max Ernst's frottage photograms.From… Read More