Published by VVV, New York, 1944
Seller: W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 11 inches. 86,[12] pp. including numerous in-text images, plus 7 tinted half-page plates and double-leaf work comprising 2 tinted plates, the first die-cut to reveal the second, which is also embossed. In English and French. Light soiling in covers, light foxing in outer leaves, some offsetting in and from plates. Very good to near fine. The substantial fourth and final issue of the important U.S.-based Surrealist magazine, with contributions by more than two dozen artists, poets, and scholars in the realms of myth, dream, and theory. Among the visual pieces in this issue is Duchamp's ALLEGORIE DE GENRE, in which an embossed plate showing strips of fabric containing slivered stars and red bloody stripes is framed by a blue-tinted plate die-cut in the profile of George Washington. The final twelve pages, printed on green paper, contain an index of contributors to all four issues of the magazine. The cover features an image of a vagina dentata by Roberto Matta.
Published by VVV, New York, 1944
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 86 pp. Softcover, bound in printed wraps. The edges rubbed with small tears/chips along the yapp edges. Last issue of the short-lived surrealist magazine with articles in French and English including Duchamp's Allegorie de Genre.
Published by VVV, New York, 1944
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First Edition. No.4, February 1944. 86, [12] pp. with plates. Illustrated red wraps with yapped edges. Basically a Fine copy, unsophisticated, very bright and clean, slight bump to head, tiny scratch to spine, offsetting to plate between pages 56 and 57. The final issue of the surrealist journal, featuring work by Aime Cesaire, Andre Breton, Philip Lamantia, Benjamin Peret, Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Wilfredo Lam, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and more. Cover illustration by Chilean artist Roberto Matta.