Ford, Charles Henri (editor) — View (No. 2, Series V, May 1945) [Periodical Issue]

New York City, View, Inc, 1945. Softcover. Yellow & black & illus. stapled wraps, pp. numbered 1-48, BW illus. One issue of this American art and literary periodical, heavy on Surrealism, and published by Charles Henri Ford from 1940-1947. This issue features a cover by Wifredo Lam. Articles are: The Point of View / P. B. -- Chewing Gum Land / Ramon Beteta -- Shrinking the Heads / Bertrand Flornoy -- Two Documents -- The Buzzard / Ramon J. Sender -- Origins of American Man / Paul Rivet -- Scrapbook of Tropical Americana -- John Very Bad -- The Thirteenth Ahau Katun / Chilam Balam -- The Story of Sage Earth Fish -- The Fertile Serpent of Bat Mansion -- Aztec Poems / trans. by Ramon Sartoris -- Psychic Structure of the Kaingang / Jules Henry -- Politican Cartoon of the 19th Century. Also includes departments for Art, Literature, Jazz of this Quarter, and View Listens. G (Average wear to page and cover edges; average soiling to covers.) .