Malraux, André. Les conquérants. Trente-trois eaux-fortes originales en deux couleurs gravées par André Masson. 223 pp., 4 Bl., 1 Bl. Print note. With 33 original etchings, 27 of which are leaf-sized and unprinted at the back. 38 x 28,5 cm. Loose double sheets in original envelope, chemise and slippers. Paris, Albert Skira, 1949. Passeron 13. Smoke 134. Strachan p. 338. Lang, Surrealism 81st – First edition with these illustrations. One of 125 copies, total edition 165 copies. To Pur fil du Marais. The etchings in black and a second colour, including olive, ochre and blue, are printed. Signed in print by artist, author and publisher. After the illustrations of L'Espoir the second, however completely different work of Masson to a civil war novel by Malraux "André Malrux' 1928 novel about civil remains in China provided André Masson with a setting to whose oriental motifs he strongly implied at this time. Nevertheless, despite the calligraphic technique of the illustrations, the treatment is still largely sureal - the horse becomes the symbol of the revolution, the revolutionary hurls his incendiary, knives flash in an automatic jumble of bodies" (Strachan). – Very nice specimen.