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Softcover comics book, oblong flapped wrappers, 186 x 280 mm, pink border in black rules, black lettering to front, 45 unpaginated leaves (pp. 90) with text and pictorial story, some in-text woodcuts and a tail-piece. No title-page. Catalogue Raisonné: Dutel III, 2424, pp. 368-9. The publication was prosecuted per the French Law of December 20, 1965. Sophie is a re-written version of Puberté. Journal d’une escolière [by Maria Luz], published in 1933 by Éditions Raoul Saillard, Paris. Publisher: Éric Losfeld (Belgian-French, 1922 – 1979) -
Softcover, 210 x 136 mm, in publisher’s wrappers, black and red lettering to front and spine; pp.: [4] i-xi [xii], [2] 1-607 [608], i.e. 313 leaves. Printed from microfiches smuggled from the USSR to the West. English title Life and Fate. Front wrapper: ВАСИЛИЙ ГРОССМАН | ЖИЗНЬ | И СУДЬБА | РОМАН | L’AGE D’HOMME || Title-page: ВАСИЛИЙ ГРОССМАН | ЖИЗНЬ И СУДЬБА | РОМАН | ИЗДАНИЕ ПОДГОТОВИЛИ | С. МАРКИШ И Е. ЭТКИНД | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ Е. ЭТКИНДА | L’AGE D’HOMME || Contributors: Гроссман, Василий Семёнович [Grossman, Vasily] (Soviet-Jewish, 1905 – 1964) Маркиш, Симон Перецович [Markish, Shimon] (Soviet-Jewish-Swiss, 1931 – 2003) Эткинд, Ефим Григорьевич [Etkind, Efim] (Soviet-Jewish-French, 1918 – 1999) -
Hardcover, 226 x 226 mm, pictorial cardboard, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], illustrated in colour throughout. Title-page (crimson and black): PRÉFACE | MARIE-HÉLÈNE LAFON | DIRECTION | MARIE-PAULE CAIRE-JABINET | De la séduction… | CARTES POSTALES | DE LA BELLE ÉPOOUE | ET DES ANNÉES FOLLES | TEXTES DE | CORINNE LEGOY | LAIN QUELLA-VILLÉGER | JULIETTE RENNES | MARIANNE RÖTIG | ATCHA SALMON | CHRISTELLE TARAUD | SYLVAIN VENAYRE | Bleu autour || ISBN: 9782358480727 -
The good old days of naughty postcards: Softcover, 160 x 160 mm, blue flapped wrappers, front with a keyhole openwork showing the vignette in colour on the flap; pp. [1-9] 10-272 [4], colour illustrations throughout, topics from A to Z, historical erotic postcards from the author's collection. Title-page: LA BELLE ÉPOQUE | DES CARTES COQUINES | Christian DEFLANDRE | HORAY || Annotation (back wrapper): De A comme Adam, à Z comme Zizi, de lestes galanteries aux vertes gauloiseries témoignent de 'esprit facétieux de la vie amoureuse à la Belle Époque. Qualifies de « grivoises » par les amateurs de nudités, « licencieuses » par les moralistes, ces cartes au charme désuet dévoilent la sensualité et 'érotisme de nos arrière-grands-parents. ISBN 978-2-7058-0466-4 -
Softcover, 290 x 205 mm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], text in English, French, and German, profusely illustrated. First edition published in 2011. Title-page: Edited by Dian Hanson | LA | PETITE | MORT | § | PHOTOGRAPHS BY SANTILLO | TASCHEN || Hanson, Dian (American, b. 1951) – editor/text Santillo, William (American) – photographer -
Publisher’s tea green French flapped wrappers with double bordered vignette embossed to front, 298 x 295 mm, 18 gatherings in 4to (i.e. 72 leaves), 280 x 190 mm leaves plus one gathering in the wrappers, outer and lower margins untrimmed; pagination: [2] [1-15] 16-136 [4] [2], not counting leaves in the wrappers; paper watermarked “Lana” (grand vélin de Lana a la forme); 16 pictorial etchings and two fac-simile ms etchings within collation, tissue guards; in a double slipcase 306 x 204 mm with a vignette “capital C in ribbons” to spine of the inner chemise. Title-page (lilac and black) PIERRE LOUŸS | CYDALISE | AVEC DES ILLUSTRATIONS ORIGINALES | GRAVES A L'EAU-FORTE | {woodcut vignette} | LES AMIS DE L'ÉCRIVAIN | — | PARIS | M C M X L I X || Limitation: JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE | CETTE ÉDITION ORIGINALE | DU LIVRE DE CYDALISE A ETÉ, POUR SON TIRAGE, LIMITÉE | A DEUX CENT SOIXANTE CINQ EXEMPLAIRES | DONT LA DISTRIBUTION S'EFFECTUE DE LA | FAÇON SUIVANTE. […] DEUX CENTS EXEMPLAIRES SUR GRAND VELIN DE LANA A LA FORME NUMÉROTÉS DE 51 A 250. […] EXEMPLAIRE N° 91 || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 1333, p. 116; Nordmann II № 309, 151. Ref: honesterotica.com Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Jean Traynier (French, fl. 1942 – 1957) – artist (attributed) -
Paperback, 210 x 140 mm, light brown wrappers with lettering, vignette to front and author’s photo portrait to back, pp. [1-6] 7-349 [3]; ISBN 5-7358-0002-7. Print run 100.000 copies. Title-page: С. ДОВЛАТОВ | — | ЗОНА | записки | надзирателя | — | КОМПРОМИСС | — | ЗАПОВЕДНИК | ПИК | Независимое издательство | — | МОСКВА | 1991 || Contributors: Author: Довлатов, Сергей Донатович [Dovlatov, Sergei] (Soviet-American, 1941 – 1990) Artist: Перевезенцев, Пётр Юльевич (Russian, b. 1962) Chief editor: Мориц, Юнна Петровна [Morits, Yunna] (Ukrainian-Jewish, b. 1937)
Portrait of Sergei Dovlatov by Mikhail Lemkhin / c. 1980s. [SVMC-0025.2022]
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Softcover, 170 x 120 mm, in white publisher’s wrappers, vignette to front by A.-M. Carmant, red and black lettering to both covers, red lettering to spine, pp.: [1-3 4-109 [3]. ISBN 2-911314-02-6. Title-page: Maurice Joly | Le Plébiscite | Épilogue | du Dialogue aux Enfers | entre Machiavel et Montesquieu | précédé de | César | paris-zanzibar || Front cover (red and black): maurice joly | le plébiscite | épilogue du dialogue aux enfers | entre machiavel et montesquieu | {vignette par A.-M. Carmant | paris-zanzibar || Contents: Préface : F. Leclercq. Maurice Joly, un suicidé de la démocratie César Épilogue au Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Premier dialogue. L' arsenal de Machiavel II. L'appel au peuple III. Le plébiscite IV. La noyade parlementaire V. Le oui et le non VI. Comment Montesquieu votera-t-il VIIe et dernier dialogue. Non Annexe La Cloche, dimanche 19 juin 1870 Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme par lui-même (extrait) -
Two softcover volumes, 4th and 5th of the series Les arts décoratifs, collated 8vo, in uniform brown wrappers with red and black lettering to the front cover and black lettering to the spine and back cover, 215 x 152 mm, published by Librairie d'art R. Ducher, overtaken by Flammarion.- Vol. 4: 1-48, pp. [1-5] 6-63 [64]; LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (in rules) | JACQUES RUPPERT | LE COSTUME | IV | LOUIS XVI – DIRECTOIRE | = 150 ILLUSTRATIONS = | | {vignette } | PARIS | Flammarion (pasted over) ||
- Vol. 5: 1-48, pp. [1-5] 6-63 [64]; LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (in rules) | JACQUES RUPPERT | LE COSTUME | V | CONSULAT - PREMIER EMPIRE -LOUIS-PHILIPPE - NAPOLÉON III | = 145 ILLUSTRATIONS = | {vignette } | PARIS | Flammarion (pasted over) ||
- Le costume sous le Consulat et l'Empire: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume militaire.
- Le costume féminin sous le premier Empire : Éléments caractéristiques. Spencers et canezous. Robes de cour. Redingotes. Witz-chouras.
- Les coiffures sous le premier Empire : Coiffures masculines et féminines.
- La Restauration : Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Coiffures féminines.
- Louis-Philippe: Caractères généraux. Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Robes de bal. Robes à pèlerine. Faux et vrai canezous. Mantelets. Robes à corsage plat et crinolines. Coiffures féminines. Chapeaux et bonnets.
- Deuxième République et Napoléon III: Costume masculin. Costume féminin. Crinolines et tournures. Coiffures.
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Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 235 x 165 mm, pp. [1-9] 10-176, 120 illustrations, incl. 109 in full colour, 3 maps, glossary, and timeline. An enveloped postcard to E. Varshavsky laid in. Text profusely marked with coloured highlighters. Title-page (pictorial): Art of Edo Japan | The Artist and the City 1615-1868 | Christine Guth | PERSPECTIVES | HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC. PUBLISHERS || Contents: NOTE TO THE READER Map: Japan during the Edo period INTRODUCTION: Mapping the Artistic Landscape- The Artist and the City
- Kyoto Artists
- Edo Artists
- Osaka and Nagasaki Artists
- Itinerant, Provincial, and Rural Artists; Itinerant Monk-Artists and Pilgrimage Art; Poet and Literati Painters; Provincial and Rural Artists
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Paperback, 2nd edition, 290 x 205 mm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers with large flaps, white lettering, pp.: [1-6] 7-208, 198 illustrations, with glossary and 2½ pp. index. 1st edition published in 2020. Title-page: Japanese | Dress in Detail | Josephine Rout | with Anna Jackson | {Thames |&Hudson / V&A} || Contents: Introduction- Necklines and Shoulders
- Headwear
- Sleeves
- Waists
- Waist Accessories
- Hems
- Linings and Undergarments
- Footwear
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Paperback, 234 x 163 mm, front wrapper: ВЕНЕДИКТ ЕРОФЕЕВ | МОСКВА – ПЕТУШКИ | {vignette} | YMCA-PRESS | PARIS || The vignette is a photomechanical reproduction in colour of a fragment of the painting by Vyacheslav Kalinin “A thirsty man”; spine: ВЕНЕДИКТ ЕРОФЕЕВ — МОСКВА - ПЕТУШКИ ||; pagination: [1-4] 5-73 [3]. Title-page: ВЕНЕДИКТ ЕРОФЕЕВ | МОСКВА - ПЕТУШКИ | YMCA ~ PRESS | 11, rue de la Montagne-Ste-Geneviève – 75005 Paris, France. || Colophon: ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER | LE 18 AVRIL 1977 | PAR JOSEPH FLOCH | MAITRE-IMPRIMEUR | A MAYENNE | NO 5923 || Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев [Venedikt Yerofeyev] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author. Вячеслав Васильевич Калинин [Vyacheslav Kalinin] (Russian-American, 1939 – 2022) – artist/cover -
Softcover, 328 x 250 mm, green French flapped wrappers, lettered; 22 leaves plus 2 in wrappers, unpaginated, incl. frontispiece (etching), headpiece (lithography), 4 in-text illustrations (1 lithography + 3 etchings), and 5 plates (3 dry points + 1 etching = 1 lithography) by Albert Marquet. Limited edition of 200 copies on Arches Vellum, watermarked, of which this is copy № 144; published by Manuel Bruker on May 16, 1948; lithographs printed by André Clot. Title-page (olive and black): ÉLOGE | DE | ALBERT MARQUET | PAR | LÉON WERTH | ORNÉ | DE GRAVURES ORIGINALES | {publisher’s device} | MANUEL BRUKER ÉDITEUR || Colophon: J'AI ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER | CET OUVRAGE LE JOUR DE | LA PENTECOTE 1948 A 200 | EXEMPLAIRES SUR VÉLIN | D'ARCHES A LA FORME NU | MÉROTES DE 1 A 200. ON | A JOINT AUX 20 PREMIERS | EXEMPLAIRES UNE SUITE | SUR PAPIER JAPON ANCIEN | ET UNE SUITE DES PLAN | CHES NON UTILISEES. LES | LITHOGRAPHIES ONT ÉTÉ | TIRÉES PAR ANDRÉ CLOT. The day of Pentecost in 1948 was Sunday, May 16. Contributors: Werth, Léon (French, 1878 – 1955) – author Marquet, Albert (French, 1875 – 1947) – artist Bruker, Manuel [Mendel] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1891 – 1979) – publisher Clot, André (French, 1909 – 2002) – printer -
Softcover, 193 x 252 mm, pictorial wrappers, lettered, 24 leaves numbered on recto 2-23 with 23 photogravures after Charles Castellani and advertisement to verso. Front wrapper: (ribbon) EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1889 | ESPLANADE • DES • INVALIDES • | — | PANORAMA | LE | ”TOVT – PARIS” | peint par | Ch. Castellani | — || Title-page: (in frame) PANORAMA | LE | “TOUT – PARIS” | PEINT PAR | CH. CASTELLANI || Ref: BNF, département Estampes et photographie, 4-NA-62; Getty Research Institute Accession Number 2623-796. Contributors: Charles Castellani (French, 1838 – 1913) Arents, Pierre-Marie (Belgian, 1842 – 1916) Characters: Fouquier, Henry (French, 1838 – 1901) Bernhardt, Sarah [Bernard, Henriette-Rosine] (French, 1844 – 1923) Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie, Comte de (French, 1805 – 1894) Clemenceau, Georges (French, 1841 – 1929) Troubetzkoy, Pyotr Petrovich, Prince (French, 1822 – 1892) Shah Qajar, Naser al-Din (Persian, 1831 – 1896) Floquet, Charles (French, 1828 – 1896) Marinoni, Hippolyte Auguste (French, 1823 – 1904) Charcot, Jean-Martin (French, 1825 – 1893) Poupart-Davyl Louis (French, 1835 – 1890) Eiffel, Gustave (French, 1832 – 1923) Grévy, Jules (French, 1807 – 1891) Zola, Émile (French, 1840 – 1902) Granier de Cassagnac, Paul (French, 1843 – 1904) Claretie, Jules Arsène Arnaud (French, 1840 – 1913) Rochefort, Victor Henri, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (French, 1831 – 1913) Pasteur, Louis (French, 1822 – 1895) Broglie, Albert, duc de (French, 1821 – 1901) Gounod, Charles (French, 1818 – 1893) Dumas fils, Alexandre (French, 1824 – 1895) Ferry, Jules (French, 1932 – 1893) Pyat, Félix (French, 1810 – 1889) Loti, Pierre (French, 1850 – 1923) Michel, Louise (French, 1830 – 1905) Péan, Jules-Émile (French, 1830 – 1898) among others. -
Softcover, 278 x 243 mm, French flapped pictorial wrappers with blue lettering and oval vignette in the middle to front, blue lettering to flaps; pp. [1-4] 5-113 [3], ISBN 88-8082-523-2. Title-page: Laclos en images | Editions illustrées de Liaisons dangereuses | réunies et présentées | par Michel Delon et Michèle Sajous D'Oria | Mario Adda Editore | PRESSES DE L'UNIVERSITE DE PARIS-SORBONNE || Imprint: (convex) le cabinet des curiosités | collection dirigée par Michel Delon | et Michèle Sajous D'Oria | (bottom left) ISBN 88-8082-523-2 | © Copyright 2003 | Mario Adda Editore - Via Tanzi. 59 – Bari | Tel e Fax 080/5539502 | Web: www.addaeditore.it | E-mail: addaeditore @addaeditore.it | Fotocomposizione: La Matrice – Bari | Stampa: Edizioni Pugliesi srI.- Martina Franca (Ta) || Contributors: Michel Delon (French, b. 1947) – author Michèl Sajous D’Oria – author -
Softcover, 155 x 118 mm, publisher’s wrappers, lettering and vignette to front, lettering to spine; collated 8vo: 1-148 (i.e. 112 leaves), pp.: [1-4] 7-218 [6 advert], frontispiece. Inscription to t.p. Г(Т?). Тараманян. Woodcuts to front wrapper and frontispiece after Vladimir Favorsky. Front wrapper: ПРОСПЕР | МЕРИМЕ | СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | КОЛОМБА | {vignette} | — | ACADEMIA || Title-page: ПРОСПЕР МЕРИМЕ | КОЛОМБА | Colomba | РОМАН | Перевод | В. М. Гаршина | — | «ACADEMIA» | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1927 || Contra-title: СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ | ПРОСПЕР МЕРИМЕ | ПЕРЕВОД С ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО | ПОД ОБЩЕЙ РЕДАКЦИЕЙ | М. КУЗЬМИНА, М. ЛОЗИНСКОГО | И А. А. СМИРНОВА | V | — | «ACADEMIA» | ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1927 || Imprint: Обложка и иллюстрации в тексте — оригинальная | гравюра на дереве В. А. Фаворского | Ленинградский Гублит № 44048. Тираж 5.100 экз. | — | 2-я типография Транспечати НКПС Ленинград, ул. Правды, 15. || Print run: 5100 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №249, p. 190. Original title: Colomba first appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes on 1 July 1840. Magen et Comon published it as a single volume in 1841. Contributors: Mérimée, Prosper [Мериме, Проспер] (French, 1803 – 1870) – author Кузмин, Михаил Алексеевич [Kuzmin, Mikhail] (Russian, 1872 – 1936) – editor Лозинский, Михаил Леонидович [Lozinsky, Mikhail] (Russian, 1886 – 1955) – editor Смирнов, Александр Александрович (Russian, 1883 – 1962) – editor Гаршин, Всеволод Михайлович [Garshin, Vsevolod] (Russian, 1855 – 1888) – translator Фаворский, Владимир Андреевич [Favorsky, Vladimir] (Russian, 1886 – 1964) – artist -
Softcover, 240 x 170 mm, creme dust jacket with red and black lettering and circular opening in the middle to front, red lettering to spine, over pictorial wrappers, pp. [1-8] 9-143 [1], ISBN 978-88-95598-25-3. 1st edition. Title-page (red and black): LACLOS | ILLUSTRE | « SCÈNES DES « LIAISONS DANGEREUSES» | Editions réunies et présentées | par Michel Delon et Michèle Sajous D'Oria | lineadacqua || Colophon: Imprimé à Venise, Italie | En février 2014 | Par Grafiche Veneziane || Publisher: Lineadacqua Edizioni; San Marco 3717/d, 30124 Venezia; www.lineadacqua.com Contributors: Michel Delon (French, b. 1947) – author Michèl Sajous D’Oria – author Contents: ILLUSTRATION ET INTERPRÉTATION – Michel Delon METTRE LES LETTRES ENSCÈNES – Michèle Sajous D'Oria LES LETTRES L'ÉCRITURE LE SECRET LA TRAHISON LE REFUS LA MARQUISE DE MERTEUIL LA PETITE MAISON LE CHEVALIER DE PRÉVAN LE RIVAL LE PIÈGE LE VICOMTE, DE VALMONT SÉDUCTIONS CÉCILE DE VOLANGES LA SURPRISE DES SENS LE VIOL LAPRÉSIDENTE DE TOURVEL L'AMOUR LA MORT FINALE Bibliographie des éditions illustrées Notices sur les illustrateurs -
Cardboard folder with title label to front, 23.5 x 26.3 cm, containing 12 hand-coloured soft-ground etchings by André Collot, unbound, in a paper folder with pink lettering and vignette engraved on wood, with a title-page in black: JEUNESSE | 12 VERNIS MOUS COLORIÉS | tires à exemplaires | réservés aux Amis de l’Artiste | 1933 || in a frame. First edition, limited to 60 copies. Dutel 1920-70: 1786. There is another copy of the same without the cardboard folder SVE-0469.2021.
