Clef Des Songes

Lyon: Les Escrivains Reunis, 1950. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Unpaginated. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. There is a darkened patch on the limitation page which extends to the title page (the result of a piece of paper having been laid in at one time). With the publisher's glassine wrapper- hardly worn. Edited by Armand Henneuse. This first edition was limited to 715 copies, with 16 - 715 on Lana teinté. This is copy 24. Ritter B a) 44. A journey in thirty striking woodcuts. Masereel's woodcut series, which were mainly of sociocritical content and of expressionistic formal concept, brought Masereel international acknowledgment.