[Paris]: GLM, 1939. First edition, first printing of Duchamp's Dadaist aphorisms compiled under his female alter-ego and pseudonym, Rrose Selavy, an erotic riff on the classic French phrase "C'est la vie". Copy #381 of 500 numbered copies printed on Japon paper. [xvi] pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Very Near..... More
New York: VVV, 1944. No.4, February 1944. 86, [12] pp. with plates. Illustrated red wraps with yapped edges. Basically a Fine copy, unsophisticated, very bright and clean, slight bump to head, tiny scratch to spine, offsetting to plate between pages 56 and 57. The final issue of the surrealist journal..... More
New York: VVV, 1942-1944. A complete run of the prominent, albeit short-lived, stateside Surrealist journal printed during WWII while many of its contributors were in exile. Four issues in three volumes. Text in English and French. Bound in publisher's printed wraps with the scarce "readymade" chicken wire inset at rear..... More