Les Malheurs des Immortels

48pp with 21 illustrations (frontispiece and 20 monochrome plates) after Collages by Max Ernst. Groundbreaking collaboration that marks the border between Dadaism and Surrealism. Each poem is opposite a collage forming a collage-text pair with themes of misfortunes of the immortals. Collages include metamorphoses of hoom-animals, living parts animating machines, the elements (air, water, etc.) intertwined, or electrical, mechanical or erotic tensions. This is copy #495, one of 1300 numbered copies on Vergé Crème. Original wrappers with shadow from glassine wrapper. Second edition. 6½" - 8¾".