1970 Marcel Duchamp, or, The Castle of Purity

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Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

The first English edition of this work. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper. Tom Maschler’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Maschler is a publisher who worked for Jonathan Cape, who discovered and published authors including Ian McEwan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Title page is Paz’s silhouette of Duchamp’s portrait. A critical artistic study into the work of Marcel Duchamp, the noted French-American painter, whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Illustrated with one colour plate. Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet and diplomat, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.