May 22, 2003 - Sale 1972

Sale 1972 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ERNST, MAX. Une Semaine de Bonté ou les Sept Éléments Capitaux. 182 plates by Ernst reproducing collaged wood-engravings. 5 volumes [complete]. 4to, original color wrappers, spines faded as usual, few minor surface marks; rear wrapper separating from text block in Part 4; evidence of removed bookplates on pastedowns; original board slipcase, spine heavily worn, label stained and partially torn, few internal repairs but most sides still split. Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1934

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one of 800 sets of ernst's most ambitious collage-novel.