HENRY (Mauritius). The Void Shapes. Paris: les Éditions de Minuit, [1955]. - In-4, 270 x 210: (32 ff.). Illustrated black cardboard of the publisher. Original edition of this story in pictures telling the dreamlike and poetic journey of Adrien. This work is the work of the poet, painter and illustrator Maurice HENRY (1907-1984), close to the Surrealists. It is considered one of the most beautiful object books of the 20th century. It consists of 64 colour plates on 32 sheets , 16 of which are perforated. "In the image of the dreamlike and enchanting journey of the character, who has left the mainland to travel through fantastic landscapes, alternately aquatic, vegetal and mineral, these days induce a new logic in the reading and upset its temporality: each leaf turned is a step towards a surprise. Imprints of surrealism, these Metamorphoses, quite apart in the work of Maurice Henry, also contain in images the key reminiscences of his existence by bringing together the figures of fellow travellers such as René Daumal, poet of the Grand Jeu, and André Breton" (presentation of the éditions des Sandres for the reissue of the book in 2018). Copy of second edition, the first having been largely destroyed in a fire. Copy well preserved despite a tear of about ten centimeters to the canvas of the back.