(SURREALISM) Ford Charles Henri; editor View The Modern Maga

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(SURREALISM.) Ford, Charles Henri; editor. View: The Modern Magazine. Bound volume containing 28 issues from the First through Seventh series. Literary and artistic contributions by Calder, Duchamp, Ernst, Cornell, Klee, Man Ray, Masson, Magritte, Miró, Picasso, Sartre, Tchelitchew, Williams and many others. Thin 4to, bound together in slate grey buckram lettered in gilt on spine, all pictorial wrappers bound in. Lacking the two scarce Vol 1 issues 3 and 4-5, but otherwise complete. New York, 1940-47

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A near-complete run of this important magazine devoted to Surrealism and the Avant-Garde. First Series (stapled wrappers format): Vol 1, nos. 1, 2 (1940); 6, 7-8 (1941), 9-10, 11-12 (1942) Series Two: (8vo bound format, 1942-43): 1-4 (includes Max Ernst, Tchelitchew, Vertigo, and Fantastica issues) Series Three (1943): 1-4 Series Four (1944): 1-4 Series Five (1945-46): 1 (Special Duchamp issue) 2-6 Series Six (1946): 1, 2-3, 3 Series Seven (1946-47): 1 (Noguchi), 2 (Surrealism in Belgium); 3.