From Baudelaire to Surrealism

RAYMOND, Marcel. From Baudelaire to Surrealism. New revised and reworked edition. Paris: Librairie José Corti, 11 Rue de Médicis, 1940. 8vo, green half cloth with boards covered in polychrome decorative paper with geometric and floral motifs in Art Deco style, smooth spine with bordeaux leather label bearing title and author impressed in gold. Period amateur binding of good quality. Fundamental text of French literary criticism, reference work for the study of modern poetry from Baudelaire through Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Valéry to the surrealist movement. Marcel Raymond (1897-1981), Geneva-based critic and professor at the University of Geneva, was a central figure of the 'Geneva School' of literary criticism. José Corti, Paris publisher founded in 1938, became the editorial reference point for surrealism and avant-garde literature. Copy in good general condition.