Artworks · Mary Reynolds

Le surmâle: Roman moderne (Superman: A Modern Novel)

1945 · Full black morocco binding with onlay; metal corset stay attached to spine; title stamped in gold on spine; mauve endpapers printed with wire-mesh pattern; original paper covers bound in

22.3 × 13.7 × 2.2 cm (8 13/16 × 5 7/16 × 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Loin de Rueil (Skin of Dreams)

1944 · Full red morocco binding with raised bands; author and title stamped in gold on spine; endpapers of trial proofs for Marcel Duchamp's 1935 cover of Minotaure; original paper covers bound in

H.: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rrose Sélavy

1939 · Full sienna, pink, and beige goatskin with cotton cord, grey-card onlays with trial stamps of a typographic plate made for Duchamp's Box in a Valise. Endpapers printed in pochoir with fern-leaf pattern and hand-drawn insects in black ink

17.1 × 12.2 × 1.1 cm (6 3/4 × 4 13/16 × 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les Enfants du limon: Roman (Children of Clay: Novel)

1938 · Bound in combination full morocco leather with gold lettering, leather doublure margins; marbled paper end leaves; original covers bound in

H.: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les Mains libres: Dessins de Man Ray, illustrés par les poèmes de Paul Éluard (Free Hands: Drawings illustrated by the poems of Paul Éluard)

1937 · Full tan morocco binding; leather gloves onlaid on front and back covers; author and title stamped in palladium on spine; doublures; silk endpapers; top edge gilt; original paper covers bound in

28.8 × 23 × 4.3 cm (11 3/8 × 9 1/16 × 1 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ubu roi: Drame en cinq actes (King Ubu: A Play in Five Acts)

1935 · Full tan morocco binding; boards die cut in the shape of U; onlays on spine in shape of B; black silk endleaves; crown stamped in gold on front endleaf; author stamped in gold on back endleaf; gilt edges; original paper covers bound in

16.8 × 13.5 × 2.8 cm (6 5/8 × 5 3/8 × 1 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

La machine infernale: pièce en 4 actes

1934 · Full vellum binding, wine-colored morocco label with gold lettering on spine; vellum end leaves; original paper covers bound in

H.: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Night-flight

1932 · Full navy, vegetable-tanned sheepskin; endpapers of trial proofs for Marcel Duchamp's 1935 cover of Minotaure

H.: 17 cm (6 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou L'école du libertinage (The 120 Days of Sodom, or The School of Libertinage)

1931 · Two books in three volumes with slipcase

slipcase: 11 1/4 × 9 × 3 7/16" (28.5 × 22.8 × 8.8 cm);

Museum of Modern Art

La science de Dieu ou La création de l'homme (The Science of God, or The Creation of Man)

1930 · Heavy boards covered with calf, green outside and black inside; on the front and back are onlays of frogskin; inside boards are reinforced with secondary boards in green with gold lettering, with facing leaves of decorated paper simulating frog skin; the spine is black calf with vertical lines in blind stamping; original paper covers bound in

20.5 × 18.4 × 4.4 cm (8 1/8 × 7 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hebdomeros: le paintre et son génie chez l'écrivain Hebdomeros: le paintre et son génie chez l'écrivain (Hebdomeros: The Painter and his Genius as Writer)

1929 · Full leather with fluted spine and white- and black-goatskin onlays; orange silk endpapers, emerald and terracotta goatskin doublures, top edge gilt; paper-covered slipcase with goatskin trim and felt lining

20.2 × 18.5 × 3.7 cm (8 × 7 5/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien (Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician)

1923 · Full brown leather embossed in a herringbone pattern, with black calfskin-covered, die-cut panels; gold stamping; and inlaid perforated copper sheets; green glassine endpapers and gilt edges; original paper covers bound in

14.5 × 10.5 × 1.7 cm (5 3/4 × 4 3/16 × 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard: Poème

1914 · Fully bound in leather, title and author written across leather covers and spine in palladium and blind lettering; decorated end leaves; original paper covers bound in

H.: 34 cm (13 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago