E.L.T. Mesens, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins de René Magritte

Paris, Le Terrain Vague, 1959. Ten drawings by Magritte, poems in French by Mesens. Softcover, 19 x 14 cm, 185 pp. First edition, one of 1000 copies on rough edged offset Marais paper, numbered No.675 in blue ink. Spine shows toning, cover slightly foxed, mild corner lift affecting the first 6 pp. Interior very good.

(2) Surrealist Transforma(c)tion No.10, October 1979. Edited by John Lyle. Staple bound, 21 x 14.5 cm, 44 pp. Fine copy. Last issue of the scarce hand-produced magazine of surrealism, edited and printed in Devon (1967-1979). Dedicated to the Belgian artist and writer Mesens (1903 –1971) who organized the first Surrealist exhibition in Belgium in 1934 and co-organised the London International Surrealist Exhibition. In the late 1930s he directed the London Gallery and became the chief editor of the London Bulletin (1938–1940), one of the most important English-language Surrealist periodicals. (total 2)