MATISSE. – Gualtiero di son LAZZARO (editor). XXe Siècle. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, March 1938- January 1939. First Series, Nos. 1-6, 5 issues [5-6 double issue], 4to (318 x 243mm.) Original linocuts, woodcuts and lithographs by Matisse, Kandinsky, Miro, Henri Laurens, Arp, Alberto Magnelli, Giorgio de Chiroco, Zadkine, and colour lithographs by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray and Max Ernst, Jean Hélion, a quadrichromie by Salvador Dali, text in French with articles by Le Courbusier, Georges Duthuit, John Piper, numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning, occasional marginal spotting and chipping, stain to p.3 of issue 4, a few linocuts with small corner creases, 1 loose Kandinsky plate, last leaves of issue 2 with corner creases.) Original printed wraps (spines taped, some browning, minor stains, corner crease to issue 3). Note: complete. A rare run of the first series of this important art journal which was stalled by the start of the war. The New Series began again in 1951 under the same editor. Issue 4 of 1938 is the English edition (5).