DUCHAMP (Marcel). View The Modern Magazine. New York: Charles Henri Ford, March 1945. — Large quarto brochure, 307 x 230, stapled. The famous Issue No. 1 of the fifth series of this New York magazine, entirely devoted to Marcel Duchamp. It features texts in English by Charles Henri Ford, André Breton, James Thrall Soby, Gabrielle Buffet, Robert Desnos, Harriet and Sidney Janis, Nicolas Calas, Frederick J. Kiesler, and Barry Ulanov. Duchamp designed the cover; the interior features numerous reproductions of his works, as well as those by Man Ray, Florine Stettheimer, Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Maya Deren, Yves Tanguy, and Matta. Very well-preserved copy.