Paris: Galerie Charpentier, [1964]. First Edition. Quarto in off-white stapled wraps with blue and white jacket; approx 100 unnumbered pages; b&w illustrations; 24cm Near fine; clean and crisp with minor tones; very light pencil notes to introductory essay; else unmarked; jacket is very good with light pencil note to upper right corner; some wear to upper edge and minor shelfwear. Stapled wraps.
In French. Original Max Ernst illustration on the dust jacket. A sweeping history of and commentary on surrealism, from itspre-surrealist forebears to its potential future. "Le surrealisme arrive a sa cinquieme phase hermetique. En alchimie,la queue de Paon, qui estl'Iris, est aussi la cinquieme phase de couleur, elle symbolise la purification et la multiplication." --Half title.
