Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

396 c   MAX ERNST. Mr. Knife, Miss Fork. By René Crevel. Illustrated with 19 black-and-white photograms, each with a printed tissue guard. 8vo, elaborate gilt-lettered black cloth, lightly worn; binding tender. Roth 66. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES INTHIS EDITION. Paris:The Black Sun Press, 1931 [5,000/7,500] The photograms featured in this book were made by combining textural rubbings and line drawings on sheets of thin translucent paper, then using those sheets of paper as photographic negatives to create a reverse image on photosensitive paper. The text is Kay Boyle’s English translation of the first chapter of René Crevel’s novel Babylone (1927).