[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.