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Title: Mr. Knife Miss Fork - One of 50 signed copies Author: Crevel, René Place: Paris Publisher: Black Sun Press Date: 1931 Description: [iv], 38 pp. Title-page printed in red and black, text paginated in red, 19 "photograms" by Max Ernst tissue-guards captioned in red. (8vo) 17.5x12 cm. (6¾x4¾"), original black buckram, spine and covers decorated in gilt, red and blue after a design by Ernst, top edges gilt, black endpapers. Number 27 of 50 copies on Hollande paper. Signed by Crevel on half-title and by Ernst on frontispiece. One of the most celebrated books of the press and a cornerstone of Surrealist literature. This work is a fragment from Crevel's novel Babylone, translated by Kay Boyle, and illustrated with some of Max Ernst's most successful book illustrations. Minkoff A-41; Rainwater 30; Roth 101. Lot Amendments Condition: Lacking slipcase; light extremity wear, covers rubbed, small chip to cloth on rear cover, hinges cracked; very good. Item number: 212603