Le trou de serrure. Nouvelles illustrés par Ubac. (Club du Soleil Noir.) by (UBAC) Crégut, Robert

Paris (Le Soleil Noir), 1968.. 152, (6)pp. 7 full-page illus. by Ubac. Dec. wraps. (with design by Ubac). Publisher’s slipcase (black boards). One of 175 numbered copies on offset Sirène Arjomari, with an original color etching by Ubac, signed and numbered in pencil, loosely inserted as issued, from the edition of 242 in all. A collection of seven short stories by Crégut--praised by Sartre, Péret, Leiris, and others in the postwar Surrealist ambit--written between 1964 and 1966, after over a decade of silence. The striking Ubac etching is printed in extremely high relief. An unopened copy; small repair on front cover.