Misfortunes of the Immortals. [Illustrated by] Max Ernst. Translated by Hugh Chisholm.

Large 8vo (paper somewhat brown., one leaf on pink paper more brown.).

Publ. pictorial green paper (min. fox.).

French/English edition illustrated with 21 photomechanical reproductions of line blocks after collages (1st ed. 1922) and augmented by 3 later drawings (on pink paper at the end). Edition limited to 610 copies. One of the 500 unnumbered. ""Misfortunes of the Immortals" is one of Ernst’s first illustrated books - a format that would become increasingly significant for him. Marking the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul Éluard, the book pairs the semantic dislocations of Éluard’s poems with the visual disjunctions of Ernst’s recent collages" (MoMA).
Réf. Monod 4244.