MOURIR DE NE PAS MOURIR. AVEC UN PORTRAIT DE L’AUTEUR MAX ERNST. 1924.

Paris: NRF, 1924

18.5 x 13.5cm, 64pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Max Ernst. Original wrappers. First edition of this early Surrealist period work. Composed of a cycle of exquisite love poems by Eluard. Accompanied by an excellent portrait and frontispiece by Ernst. One of 535 numbered copies on verge navarre, after the ‘du tete’ of 10. A very good+ example although some fading to the green wrappers around the edges and spine and minor browning internally again around the extremities. Rare.