Le Surréalisme et la Peinture suivi de Genèse et Perspective Artistiques du Surréalisme et de Fragments Inédits

New York / Paris: Brentano's, 1945. First Thus. First printing of the Brentano edition (expanded from the 1928 edition, and adding Breton's 1942 essay "Perspective Artistiques du Surréalisme." Large octavo (26cm). Original black cloth boards with applied photographic cover decoration (after Renée Matgritte); 203pp; 38 unnumbered leaves of plates (including six in color). Tight and square, with board corners slightly bumped, text clean, fresh and unmarked - Very Good or better. Issued without dustwrapper. Text entirely in French. A handsome copy of a key surrealist work. GERSHMAN p.9.