Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

177 c   (SURREALISM.) DUCHAMP, MARCEL. 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. Printed in red, blue, and black. Photographic plates, illustrations, and reproductions throughout. 8vo, publisher’s green boards; dust jacket, spine panel lightly but evenly faded. The Documents of Modern Art series, no. 14 (under the direction of Robert Motherwell). New York: George Wittenborn Inc., (1960) [500/750] the first english translation of duchamp ’ s masterpiece of modern art . inscribed and signed by him in the year of publication. 178 c   (SURREALISM.) / HUGNET, GEORGES; and HANS BELLMER. Oeillades ciselées en branche. 25 color plates, including the frontispiece and 6 full-page plates, and Bellmer’s automatic writing manuscript reproduced in heliogravure, by printer J. J. Taneur. 12mo, original stiff pink boards with lace pattern overlay, slightly bowed; glassine dust jacket. Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1939   [2,000/3,000] one of the most beautiful and important surrealist book publications . Number 170 of 200 copies on Rives, from a total edition of 230. The magnificent colored drawings, mostly in shades of violet, blue, green, and yellow, were rendered beautifully by master printer Taneur-Bolliger VI, 350; From Manet to Hockney 107; Monod 6137. 178