Marcel Duchamp, or, The Castle of Purity Cloth - 1970

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 10" by 7". None. A beautiful first edition of this critical work looking into the art of Marcel Duchamp, signed by the author. From the library of the publisher Tom Maschler. 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. In the original publisher"s cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Author"s signature to the recto to the front endpaper. Dustwrapper with minor edge wear and some discolouration, and light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine