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44. ERNST, Max. Tzara, Tristan. Le Coeur à Gaz. Paris. G[uy]. L[évis]. M[ano]. 1946.
4to. (251 x 1195 mm). [23 leaves]. Blank leaf, pp. 39 + justification leaf, final blank leaf. Illustrated with original colour drypoint engraving by Max Ernst as frontispiece. Black calf-backed marbled paper boards by Pierre-Lucien Martin with his signature gilt, orange endpapers, gilt title to spine, original publisher’s grey printed wrappers and backstrip preserved, t.e.g.
The édition de tête of Max Ernst’s collaboration with Tristan Tzara: Le Coeur à Gaz.
From the edition limited to 405 copies, with this one of 25 édition de tête copies on Hollande Van Gelder, containing Ernst’s fron-
tispiece engraving, signed and numbered in pencil.
Ernst’s engraving was issued only with the édition de tête of the book; it was printed by Stanley William Hayter in New York. [Spies 23; Berggruen 23].
