LE SURREALISME ET LA PEINTURE. SUIVI DE GENESE ET PERSPECTIVE ARTISTIQUES DU SURREALISME, ET DEFRAGMENTS INEDITS. 1945. HANDWRITTEN 5 LINE DEDICATION

New York,Brentano’s, 1945

26 x 18cm, 204pp. Original cloth covered boards with tipped on coloured illustration after Magritte. First edition thus (albeit an augmented text based on the 1928 Breton book) which has 72 reproductions of surrealist works hors-texte of which 6 are in colour. The additional material found here relates to the new essay “Geneseet perspective artistiques due surrealisme” written for this edition.

This copyo f the book has a five line handwritten,signed and dated dedication by Breton in blue ink thus: “A M. Beverly Myles qui m’a fait de ses precieux couseils un tapis volant vers l’ouest et lavie refrource en sigue de vive gratitude. Andre Breton. New York Novembre 1945”.