MISCELLANY, 20th CENTURY - David GASCOYNE (1916-2001). A Short Survey of Surrealism. [etc.]

MISCELLANY, 20^th-century – David GASCOYNE (1916-2001).  A Short Survey of Surrealism. [No place:] Cobden-Sanderson, 1935. 8vo (214 x 135mm). Half tone plates. Original turquoise pictorial cloth gilt (faded at foot of spine), dust-jacket designed by Max Ernst with price of 7s6d unclipped (piece torn away from backstrip, repairs on verso). Provenance: G. L. J. Engle, April 1953 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive book on surrealism published in England. With 19 other 20^th-century books, namely Vita Sackville-West’s Knole and the Sackvilles (London, 1922, original pictorial cloth), Frances Sheridan’s The History of Nourjahad (London, 1927, illustrations by Mabel R. Peacock, original decorated paper boards), Vita Sackville-West’s Twelve Days (London, 1928, original cloth), Douglas Cockerell’s Some Notes on Bookbinding (Oxford, 1929, original boards), Vita Sackville-West’s Family History (London, 1932, original cloth), the same author’s The Land (London, June 1939, reprint, original cloth), T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding (London, 1942, wrappers), Frederic Prokosch’s Chosen Poems (London, 1944, original boards, dust-jacket), Vita Sackville-West’s The Garden (London, 1946, original cloth, dust-jacket), Gertrude Stein’s Picasso (New York, 1946, original cloth, dust-jacket after a design by Picasso), Jean Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles (Paris, 1947, illustrations by Guy Dollian, original wrappers, crudely repaired), Christopher Sandford’s Cockalorum … Being a Bibliography of The Golden Cockerel Press June 1943-December 1948 (London, [n.d,.], original cloth, dust-jacket), Vita Sackville-West’s The Heir (London, 1950, reprint, original cloth, dust-jacket), the same author’s Nursery Rhymes (London, 1950, reprint, illustrations by Philippe Jullian, original cloth, dust-jacket), Lawrence Durrell’s The Tree of Idleness (London, 1955, original cloth, dust-jacket), the same author’s Stiff Upper Lip (London, 1958, original cloth, dust-jacket), the same author’s Sauve qui Peut (London, 1966, original cloth, dust-jacket), Anthony Powell’s Temporary Kings (London, 1973, original cloth, dust-jacket, A FINE COPY) and the same author’s Hearing Secret Harmonies (London, 1975, original cloth, dust-jacket, A FINE COPY). Provenance: From the Library of the late Sir George Engle. Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (20)