Lot 296: ROLAND PENROSE

ROLAND PENROSE

The Road Is Wider Than Long. London: London Gallery Editions, 1939.
Small quarto (208 x 166mm). Printed in red and black. 38 black and white illustrations. Original wood-effect paper-covered boards, spine and front cover printed in blue (small, neat repair near the spine foot, endpapers faintly browned).

FIRST EDITION of this important Surrealist book and antecedent to Kerouac and Beat. It is based on a diary kept by Penrose on a pre-War journey through the Balkans with Lee Miller, to whom the work is dedicated. Cover design by Hans Bellmer. Number 114 from an edition of 510 copies only. Auer, p.271; Regards à travers le livre 51.

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