[Art] [Surrealism] View: The Modern Magazine

New York, 1942-45. In eight volumes, comprising: 2nd Series, Nos. 1-4 (April 1942-January 1943); Series 3, No. 2 (June 1943); Series IV, No. 4 (December 1944); Series 5, Nos. 2 and 5 (May and December 1945). Four issues 8vo; four issues 4to. Edited by Charles Henri Ford. Original stiff pictorial wrappers, scattered light wear; text and reproductions printed on multi-color and various stocks of paper.

A fine collection of eight non-consecutive issues of this highly important magazine devoted to Surrealism and the Avant-Garde, with literary and artistic contributions by Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Yves Tanguy, Leonora Carrington, Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, e.e. cummings, Benjamin Peret, Man Ray, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Masson, Paul Bowles, and many more.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.