Rêve d'une Petite Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel.
by ERNST, Max
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About This Item
Paris.: Editions du Carrefour., 1930.. Original publisher's turquoise printed wrappers with text and vignette to front cover and titles to spine in black.. 4to. (238 x 188 mm).. Half-title with justification verso, printed title, 2 leaves with illustration ('L'Académie des Sciences') and introductory text, section titles for each part and illustrated with seventy-eight monochrome plates printed recto only by Ernst, each with printed caption, ('I - La Ténébreuse' with 22 plates, 'II - La Chevelure' with 25 plates, 'III - Le Couteau' with 21 plates, 'IV - Le Céleste Fiancé' with 10 plates), final leaf with achevé d'imprimer recto. Max Ernst's second collage novel 'Rêve d'une Petite Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel', a very good copy in the original turquoise wrappers.From the edition limited to 1,063 numbered copies, with this one of 1,000 copies on vélin teinté.Rêve d'une Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel is the second of Max Ernst's trilogy of Surrealist books with illustrations after his collages, the first was La Femme 100 Têtes (1929) and the third, Une Semaine de Bonté (1934).[Ades 11.49].
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- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47390
- Title
- Rêve d'une Petite Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel.
- Author
- ERNST, Max
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's turquoise printed wrappers with text and vignette to front cover and titles to spine in black.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Editions du Carrefour.
- Place of Publication
- Paris.
- Date Published
- 1930.
- Pages
- [88 unnumbered leaves].
- Size
- 4to. (238 x 188 mm).
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.