View: The Modern Magazine; Marcel Duchamp Number, Series V. No. 1

54 pages. 30.5 x 23 cm. Cover design by Marcel Duchamp. articles by Andre Breton, Gabrielle Buffet, Robert Desnos, Harriet & Sidney Janis, and Frederick Parker, plus contributions by Man Ray. Numerous black and white illustrations from photographs including a folding triptych with dye cuts after the artist. Ford was an American poet, novelist, diarist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. He published more than a dozen collections of poetry, exhibited his artwork in Europe and the United States, edited the Surrealist magazine View (1940–1947) in New York City, and directed an experimental film. He was the partner of the artist Pavel Tchelitchew. Moderate edgewear, white back wrapper with modest hand soiling. Orig. illustrated wrappers, Very good.