The Road Is Wider Than Long: An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938; Series of Surrealist Poetry; London Gallery Editions

Here's an evocative artist's handmade book by an English champion of the Surrealists, and a notable Surrealist himself. In this memoir of a journey through the Balkans in late 1938, created for his wife, the author combines text using varied typefaces, black & white photographs, and his own drawings. In just a few poetic lines, he conveys a wealth of emotions & images in a way that lengthy paragraphs could never hope to capture -- the feeling is that of a sharply remembered dream, steeped in centuries of myth. Well worth reading & mulling over, and not just for devotees of the Surrealists. Recommended!