A group of two published reference monographs on the French-American conceptual and Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). The first volume is Robert Lebel (French, 1901–1986), Marcel Duchamp, New York: Grove Press, Inc., in conjunction with The Trianon Press, Paris, 1959, first American edition, 192 pages, bound in orange cloth with original pictorial dust jacket; typography and layout designed by Duchamp and Arnold Fawcus, with contributions by André Breton and Henri-Pierre Roché, translated by George Heard Hamilton, featuring gravure illustrations, collotype frontispiece, tipped-in plates, and the artist's first catalogue raisonné. The second volume is Anne d'Harnoncourt (American, 1943–2008) and Kynaston McShine (Trinidadian-American, 1935–2018), eds., Marcel Duchamp, New York and Philadelphia: The Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, first paperbound printing (ISBN 0-87070-295-5), 360 pages, 429 illustrations with 12 color plates, illustrated card covers reproducing L.H.O.O.Q. (1919). Neither book bears handwritten signatures, personal inscriptions, or ownership stamps. Surrealism, Readymades, Rotoreliefs, Avant-garde, Armory Show, Assemblage, Fountain, Bicycle Wheel.
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Both volumes exhibit condition consistent with age and handling. The 1959 Lebel monograph displays edge chipping, minor tears, and surface toning to the dust jacket, now housed in a protective sleeve, with clean interior pages. The 1973 MoMA volume shows moderate surface soiling, edge rubbing to wraps, and visible tide mark water staining along the lower margins of the opening leaves.
The bigger book: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. Smaller Book: 11 x 8 1/2 in.