To and From Rrose Sélavy Marcel Duchamp, Shuzo Takiguchi Japanese Antiquarian Books

4to (33 x 25,4 cm), publisher's black cloth, publisher's dark purple slipcase, printed shipping box. First edition. First monograph on Marcel Duchamp published in Japan. Designed as a luxurious book-object, it was written by the poet and art critic Shuzo Takiguchi. 4 tipped-in plates (self-portrait in profile by Marcel Duchamp and 3 works by Shusaku Arakawa, Jasper Johns and Jean Tinguely), black and white illustrations throughout. From the edition limited to 560 copies. One of 500 numbered copies. In 1968, the year of Marcel Duchamp's death, Shuzo Takiguchi published "To and From Rrose Sélavy". The texts - Duchamp's writings translated and commented on - are combined with Takiguchi's essays, "To Rrose Sélavy" and "On Rrose Sélavy", in an homage to the father of contemporary art. With the four-page English translation of the author's introduction loosely inserted. Literature: Anne Collins Goodyear, Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, The MIT Press, 2009 ; Miryam Sas, Fault Lines Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism, Stanford University Press, 1999, p.226. A condition report and additional images are available on request.