ERNST (Max). A Week of Kindness or The Seven Capital Element - Lot 93

ERNST (Max). A Week of Kindness or The Seven Capital Elements. Novel. Paris, Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1934 (completed April 15-December 1, 1934). 5 fascicules in-4, I : (24) ff. of which the first 2 and last 2 are blank. II : (20) ff. of which the first 2 and last 2 are blank. III: (26) pages, first and last blank. IV: (18) pages, including first and last blanks. V: (35) pages, including first and last blank pages. Each paperback in a different colored cover; housed in a publisher's illustrated cardboard slipcase; spines faded and a little rubbed, traces of rust in the margins of the covers of 2 volumes, one with a small epidermure, small stain on another cover. ORIGINAL EDITION, numbered copy on Navarre paper (composite, with different numbers within the edition). The work includes: First quire. Sunday. Element: mud. Example: the lion of Belfort. - Second section. Monday. Element: water. Example: water. - Third notebook. Tuesday. Element: fire. Example: the dragon's court. - Fourth notebook. Wednesday. Element: blood. Example: Oedipus. - Last book. Thursday. Element: black. Examples: the rooster's laugh, Easter Island. Friday. Element: sight. Example: the inside of the view. Saturday. Element: unknown. Example: the key of songs. EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSTRATION REPRODUCING 182 SURREALIST COLLAGES. Max Ernst's third novel-collage, after La Femme 100 têtes (1929) and Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel (1930), Une Semaine de bonté brings together compositions created during the summer of 1933 from cuttings of engravings taken from 19th-century publications: popular editions of literature, natural science journals and trade catalogs...