35 pp. volume of poetry, in two sections, with scattered illustrations. Small quarto (10 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches). Original illustrated wrappers. Some light chipping and toning to wrappers, interior clean and bright, some minor offset image transfer, overall excellent. Santiago: Ediciones Mandrágora, 1952. Limited edition of 500 copies, unnumbered.

Enrique Gómez-Correa (1915-1995) was a Chilean poet and diplomat. Called the "most surrealist" of the Chilean surrealist poets, in July 1938 he cofounded the surrealist group Mandrágora with Teófilo Cid at the University of Chile. From 1949 to 1951, he resided in Paris with the main members of the French surrealist movement, establishing connections with Breton and Magritte, among others. Gómez-Correa's work was widely translated, and at one point he was favored to be a future Nobel Prize laureate.

In Paris is where Gómez-Correa met and established a friendship with Jacques Herold (1910-1987), a prominent Romanian surrealist painter who counted among his friends and colleagues artists and luminaries like Brancusi, Breton, and Tanguy. Herold participated in many of the noteworthy worldwide Surrealist exhibitions, and during his career provided cover illustrations and artwork for more than 80 books, including works by Tristan Tzara, Marquis de Sade, Alain Bousquet, and others. Herold provided several surrealist illustrations for this volume.

As of January 2026, OCLC locates eight holdings of this work of Chilean surrealism in libraries in the United States.

Book ID: 53631

Price: $950.00