ROSE DES VENTS AVEC QUATRE DESSINS DE MARC CHAGALL. 1920. CHAGALL’S FIRST BOOK.

Paris: Au Sans Pareil, “Collection de Litterature” 1920

19 x 13cm, 52pp plus original wrappers. Frontispiece (which was also used by Eluard and Breton in  “Les Animeus et Leurs Hommes” and 4 illustrations in the text by Chagall: in fact THE very first book illustrated by the artist.

One of Soupault’s most important collections of poems, created at the cusp of his transitional Dada to Surrealism phase. One of 1,000 copies on alfa asIde from 80 du tete copies. Fine estate. Very scarce.