(SURREALISM) [Bataille George] Histoire de loeil par Lord Au

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RARE EROTIC WORK (SURREALISM.) [Bataille, George.] Histoire de l'oeil par Lord Auch. 8 erotic lithographs by andré masson. 8vo, original lettered green wrappers, spine browned and brittle, ends chipped; contents bright, but binding threads becoming loose, leaving some signatures shaken. Paris: (Rene Bonnel and Pascal Pia), 1928

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bataille''s first work and one of the greatest erotic works of the twentieth century. A cornerstone of Surrealist literature and an extremely scarce book. Throughout its history, it has been reviled as pornography and it has been touted and admired as a modernist masterpiece of the artistic avant-garde for breaking literary grounds. Pia col. 630; Saphire 6.