[Duchamp, Marcel] 7 Volumes + 6 Press photos incl 1 photo by Nathan Rabin.
++ Press photo with backstamp of “Fine Art Photography/ by Nathan Rabin…” The image is from an earlier photo by Man Ray (signature in image at lower right), and shows 2 men at a table covered with at balls, cubes, and other objects. ++ Press photo with “Duchamp w/ shaving lather on his face (for Monte Carlo Shave, 1924)/ Photo: Man Ray/ ear: Teenny Duchamp.” Within a rubber stamp is a date in another hand, indicating when the press photo was from: “9/24/73.” ++ Similar press photo with notation on verso “Paris 1959/ Working on layout of Label’s Marcel Duchamp.” Image shows Duchamp at a table putting title labels on papers. Similar rubber stamp with “9/24/73” date. ++ Press photo with pencil notation on verso: “Duchamp photographed through the window of his piece, La Bazarre a’ Austerlitz, photo by Man Ray for Prose 1966.” ++ Press photo from an earlier chest-length photograph of Duchamp. Press photos’ versos have faint staining and foxing. 1 verso has tape to 2 of its edges. Images very good to near fine. ++ 4-Volume set: (1) Henri-Pierre Roche, Danielle Regnier-Bohler, and Jean Clair. VICTOR (MARCEL DUCHAMP). (2 and 3) Jean Clair. MARCEL DUCHAMP: CATALOGUE RAISONNE. 2 Vols. (4) PLAN POUR ECRIRE UNE VIE DE MARCEL DUCHAMP. All 4 volumes of the above are Paris: Musee National d’Art Moderne/ Imprimerie Centrale Commerciale, (1977), 4to, orig wraps, each volume in dj, same slipcase. 1 volume is internally loose, especially between front wrap and first leaf. Little fraying at spine crowns. Minor foxing. 1 dj has a small sticker. Slipcase has fracture between its base and one panel. ++ Marc Le Bot, Bazon Brock, et. al. LE MACCHINE CELEBI/ THE BACHELOR OF MACHINES. Alfieri, (1975). 4to. Minor staining to covers. DJ edgeworn. ++ Paul Matisse. MARCEL DUCHAMP, NOTES. Bos: G. K. Hall & Company, 1983. 4to. Cloth, in dj. Dampstaining to dj and outer margin. Highlighting. DJ edgeworn, has small tears and a 1 5/8 inch tear between lower right corner of front panel and front flap.++ THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS, EVEN a typographic version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s green box translated by George Heard Hamilton. (NY: George Wittenborn, nd), (“60-“ LCCN). 8vo.
Boards; tape over spine and joints, covers’ edges worn. Staining, penciling, some ink notations, foxing. 11.8 Lb.