[BATAILLE (Georges)]. History of the Eye by Lord Auch. Paris, s.l. [René Bonnel], 1928. In-8, pale blue half-maroquin, smooth spine, long title, untrimmed, cover (Michèle Schlissinger). First edition of this erotic masterpiece by Georges Bataille, illustrated with 8 out-of-text lithographs by André Masson, including a frontispiece. Edition of 134 copies, this one of 125 copies on Arches laid paper, not numbered, printed specially for Carl Einstein. Discharges from the cover folds on the first and last blank leaves.