Rrose Selavy

by Marcel Duchamp

$1,750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

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 Fine, trivial shelf wear. A beautiful copy of a fragile production; one of 500 copies. Intended as a tease

• Printing: first

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