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Cover: QUELQUES MÉMOIRES | DE | CASANOVA | Aquarelles originales de Rojankowski (pasted) | {fleuron} | PARIS | — | Javal et Bourdeaux | 1932 || Title: QUELQUES | MÉMOIRES | de | CASANOVA | DE SEINGALT | ÉCRITS PAR LUI-MÊME | — | {fleuron} | PARIS | — | Javal et Bourdeaux | 44 bis, Rue de Villejust || Pagination: ffl [4] – t.p. / blank, h.t. with pasted crayon illustr. / Exemplaire № 660, [1] 2-307 [308 blank] bfl, 10 original watercolours (with glassine paper guards) by Feodor Rojankovsky, extraneous to collation. Binding: Softcover, publisher’s grey wrappers with black and red lettering to front cover and spine; in grey canvas over cardboard folder with purple cloth gilt-lettered spine; grey canvas over cardboard slipcase. Catalogue Raisonné: Not in J.-P. Dutel (his catalogue contains only clandestine editions). Comment by J.-P. Dutel: In this copy of the edition, 20 illustrations by Auguste Leroux were cancelled and replaced with 10 original watercolours by Feodor Rojankovsky. Only one such copy exists. -
Unbound, unpaginated album (28.5 x 19.5 cm) with 22 leaves (11 folded sheets 28 x 38 cm each), printed on thick wove paper watermarked Arches with text and 27 vignettes, in a 29 x 20 cm slightly beige slipcase. Publisher’s original flapped cream wrappers, lettering to front over the vignette: VERS LIBRES | par | RAYMOND RADIGUET | Champigny | Au Panier Fleuri || Half-title: VERS LIBRES over a ribbon covering a stick, garland, and flute. Title: VERS LIBRES | par | RAYMOND RADIGUET || {vignette} | Champigny | Au Panier Fleuri || Section title: VERS LIBRES over a vignette of a girl in a hat and with an umbrella on a beach. Illustrations: Cover vignette, frontispiece, tail- and a headpiece for the Note, and vignettes (total 27 illustrations) attributed Rojan (Feodor Rojankovsky). Poems: Chat perché; Champigny, Usée, Les fiancés de treize ans, Saison, Le petit journal, Ébauches, II Cinématographe. Edition: 1st; Limitation on the last page: the total print run of 125 copies, this copy is № 18. Illustrations printed in black and stencil-coloured (au pochoir). Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 2592; Nordmann (2): 450. Dutel counts vignettes as 27, Christie's (Nordmann) as 28. Dutel writes it is printed on vergé de Hollande (laid paper), our copy is as per Nordmann, on wove Arches. No one mentions the slipcase. The number of leaves: 20 per Dutel, 22 per Nordmann. Why Cinématographe numbered II is unclear. Contributors: Raymond Radiguet (French, 1903 – 1923) – author. Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. Comparison of 1935 and 1937 editions reveals that, as usual, the earlier the better.1935 1937 
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Unbound, unpaginated album (28.4 x 19.5 cm) with 24 leaves (12 folded sheets 28 x 38 cm each), printed on thick wove paper, watermarked Vidalon, with text and 31 vignettes, some pages foxed. Publisher’s original flapped cream wrappers, lettering to front: Raymond Radiguet | Vers Libres | {vignette} || Half-title: “Vers Libres” on a ribbon covering a stick, garland, and flute. Title: Raymond Radiguet | Vers Libres | {vignette} | NOGENT | AU PANIER FLEURI || Illustrations: Cover vignette, frontispiece, tail- and a headpiece for introduction, and vignettes (total 31 illustrations) undoubtedly attributed Rojan (Feodor Rojankovsky). Poems: Chat perché; Champigny, Les fiancés de treize ans, Saison, Le petit journal, Ébauches, Usée, Jeux innocents, Bains publics, L’autre bouche, Cinématographe. In 1937, the «Jeux innocents» piece was added to the 1935 edition, together with 4 illustrations on top of 27 vignettes in 1935, making it 31. Edition: 1st thus; however, the 1935 edition may be considered the 'real' 1st. Limitation on the last page: the total print run on 250 copies by subscription only, this copy is № 181 from 243 on Vélin de Vidalon (as per Dutel). Illustrations printed in black and stencil-coloured (au pochoir). Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 2593; Nordmann (2): 451. Contributors: Raymond Radiguet (French, 1903 – 1923) – author. Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. -
Description: Softcover, 28.5 x 19.5 cm, printed on laid paper watermarked “VAN GELDER ZONEN”, publisher’s original flapped cream wrappers, bookplate of J.-P. Dutel to first blank leaf, 17 leaves within the wrappers, unpaginated, plus three anonymous gouache plates, frontispiece watercolour to h.t. verso, watercolour vignette and ribbons to t.p., attributed by J.-P. Dutel to Jean Laprade (not found). Front wrapper (no vignette): VERS LIBRES | par | RAYMOND RADIGUET | Champigny | Au Panier Fleuri || Half-title: VERS LIBRES (no vignette) Half-title verso: watercolour vignette, lettered in script at the bottom: “Au ciel des Plages | Virginie….” Title-page (red and black): {ribbon} | VERS LIBRES | par | RAYMOND RADIGUET | {vignette} | Champigny | Au Panier Fleuri | {ribbon} || Edition: Limited edition of 125 copies, of which this is copy № 125. The first edition illustrated by Rojan (Feodor Rojankovsky) [LIB-2830.2021] did not state the paper maker, however, the paper is watermarked Arches. This copy is unique, lacking Rojan’s illustrations and enriched with watercolours and gouaches by anonymous artists. Later edition (1937) in this collection: LIB-2827.2021. Contributors: Raymond Radiguet (French, 1903 – 1923) – author. Description by the seller: RADIGUET Raymond. VERS LIBRES. Champigny. Au Panier Fleuri. [Paris, ca 1935]. In-8 broché. Première édition illustrée de 28 superbes compositions en couleurs par Feodor Rojankovsky dit Rojan. Tirage : 125 ex. sur vélin d’Arches. UN DES 125 EXEMPLAIRES SUR VÉLIN D’ARCHES. Exemplaire unique orné de 2 aquarelles originales dans le texte, non signées mais de Jean Laprade et enrichi de 3 gouaches anonymes hors-texte.1935 Rojan 1935 Anonym 
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Title page (blue and black): RENE BOYLESVE | LA | LEÇON D'AMOUR | DANS UN PARC | ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | PARIS | ÉDITIONS ALBIN MICHEL | 22, RUE HUYGHENS (14e) || Pagination: [6] 1-173 [174] [4], total 184 pages, ils. Collation: publisher’s pictorial wrappers with 2 blank leaves – front and back, π2 (h.t. / justification, t.p. / blank), 87 leaves of text, [1] colophon / blank, total 92 leaves plus 21 plates, incl. frontispiece. Binding: 33.5 x 26 cm; original flapped wrappers, blue fountain and lettering to front, lettering to spine, back blank, in a marbled buckram folder (33.5 x 27 cm) with lettered paper label to spine; printed on Arches wove paper, margins untrimmed. Illustrations: 42 vignettes, tail- and headpieces in color, frontispiece and 20 plates after watercolours and gouaches by Umberto Brunelleschi printed in black and stencil-coloured (au pochoir) on the 18th of November 1933 at R. Coulouma press (Argenteuil), Jacomet press and Padovani press. Contributors: René Boylesve [Tardiveau] (French, 1867 – 1926) – author. Umberto Brunelleschi (Italian, 1879 – 1949) – artist. Daniel Jacomet (French, b. 1894 – ?) – printer. Imprimerie Coulouma (Argenteuil), Robert Coulouma (French, 1887-1976) – printer. Éditions Albin Michel (Paris) ; Albin Michel (French, 1873 – 1943) – publisher. First edition of René Boylesve's novel La Leçon d’amour dans un parc was conducted in Paris by Éditions de la Revue Blanche, in 1902. Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique. -
Description: One volume in grey-blue French flapped wrapper, 24 x 16.7 cm, collated 8vo, with black and red lettering to front cover, printed on watermarked thick wove paper Alfax Navarre, margins untrimmed, some pages uncut, illustrated with 12 aquatint plates signed Le Loup. Front wrapper and title (red and black): RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE | L'ANTI-JUSTINE | OU | LES DÉLICES DE L' AMOUR | Nouvelle édition entièrement revue et corrigée, | établie pour la première fois sur le texte original de 1798. | PRÉCÉDÉE D'UNE NOTICE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE | par HELPEY | bibliographe poitevin | {device} | ILE SAINT-LOUIS | DE L’IMPRIMERIE DE Monsieur Nicolas. Limitation: Printed 350 copies, numbered 1-350, on alfax paper; this copy is № 256. Collation: 1-158 166, incl. the 1st and last leaves within the wrappers, total 126 leaves plus 12 plates extraneous to collation. Pagination: [4 blank] [1-4] 5-243 [244 blank] [4 blank], total 252 pages, ils. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) № 1025, p. 45. Ref.: Danson Erotica Collection at Trinity College, Oxford – KK.6.33. Contributors: Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne (French, 1734 – 1806) – author. Louis Perceau [Helpey] (French, 1883 – 1942) – author. Maurice Henri Hector Duflou (French, 1885 – 1951) – publisher. The artist – Le Loup – unidentified. -
Title-page: ROBERT GANZO | DU DANCING | OU | LE DANSEUR SENTIMENTAL | avec un Frontispice et un Bandeau originaux | de | MARCEL VERTES | {publisher’s device} | Editions LEMARGET | 43, rue Madame, PARIS (VIe) | 1930.|| Description: 20.7 x 14.9 cm, French flapped cream wrappers with black and green lettering similar to title, lettering to spine “DU DANCING”; [1-13] incl. leaf in wrapper, 1st blank leaf, h.t. / limitation, frontispiece, t.p. / copyright, dedication to Gaston Guillot / blank, 14-106 [4] colophon / blank, and one leaf in wrapper; frontispiece and first chapter headpiece lithography by Vertès, plus inset of the same. Collation: 4to; [1,2]4 3-134 143; total 55 leaves. Printing: June 10, 1930, by Presses Modernes in Reims. Edition: 15 copies on Japon Impérial numbered I-XV, 20 colies on Hollande Van Gelder numbered XVI-XXXV, 250 copies on Vélin de Rives numbered 1-250, 20 of which reserved for the bookstore of H. Champion, and 25 presentation copies numbered A-Z. This copy is № XVI. Contributors: Robert Ganzo (French, 1898 – 1995) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Gaston Guillot (French, 1889 – 1960) – dedicatee. Editions Lemarget (Paris) – publisher. Presses Modernes (Reims) – printer. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes -
Paperback, 27.5 x 19 cm, pictorial wrappers, lettering to front wrapper and spine, pp.: [i-iv] v-viii, 1-104, ils.: 50 figures; catalogue, notes, and bibliography. Title-page: UNDERCURRENTS | IN THE FLOATING WORLD: | CENSORSHIP | AND JAPANESE PRINTS | Sarah E. Thompson | H. D. Harootunian | {kiwame seal} | THE ASIA SOCIETY GALLERIES | NEW YORK || Exhibition in NY: October 9, 1991 – January 5, 1992. Authors: Sarah E. Thompson (American, b. 1951) Harry D. Harootunian (Armenian-American, b. 1929) -
![[Charles Octave Moget, Joseph Décembre]. Sempronius. Histoire de la Commune de Paris en 1871. Paris, Décembre-Alonnier, [1871]. – pp: [i, ii - ht, imprim.] iii, iv - t.p., blank] [v - table] vi-viii (viii numbered iii), [1] 2 [3] 4-267 [268 blank] [1] 2-12 advert. [Pseudonym of Charles Octave Moget and Joseph Décembre]. Charles Octave Moget, dit Octave Féré (1815-1875); Joseph Décembre, dit Décembre-Allonier (1836 – 1906).](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2445.2020-a-1-500x500.jpeg)
Front publisher’s yellow wrapper, in a double frame: SEMPRONIUS | HISTOIRE | DE LA | COMMUNE DE PARIS | EN 1871 | La période impériale. – La Révolution du 4 Septembre. – Le | gouvernement de la Défense nationale. – Le Parti républicain | et le Parti socialiste. – L'Association internationale des | travailleurs. – Menées du parti socialiste. – La Commune en 1793. – Le 31 octobre et le 22 janvier. – La Capitulation de | Paris. – Le 18 mars. – L'Assassinat des généraux Clément | Thomas et Lecomte. – Le Comité central de la Garde nationale. | – La Commune ; – Ses Agissement. – Son Budget. – La | Terreur. – Insolence des Fédérés. – Les journaux. – Les Otages. | – Les Opérations militaires. – Les Fusillades. – Les Vols. – Les | Barricades. – Les Incendies. – Documents officiels de la Commune. | TROISIÈME ÉDITION | PARIS, DECEMBRE - ALONNIER, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR | 20 RUE SEGUR, 20 | PRÉS DE LA PLACE SAINT-ANDR -DES-ARTS || Title page: similar to the cover with no frame. Pagination: front wrapper, [2] – h.t. / imprint., [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] – table de matières, vi (i.e. ii), vii (i.e. iii), iii (i.e. iv), [1] 2-267 [268 blank], [1] 2-12 – publisher's advert., back wrapper. Collation : 18mo ; π4, 1-1518, ß6. Binding: 18.5 x 12 cm; softcover; original yellow wrappers, black lettering to covers and spine; almost disbound. Réferences: Le Quillec (1997): 2324; University of Sussex > Paris Commune Collection. Author of the book: "SEMPRONIUS" was in reality two men: Moget, Charles Octave [Féré, Octave] (French, 1815 – 1875) and Décembre, Joseph [Décembre-Allonier] (French, 1836 – 1906). -
NEWSoftcover, 228 x 155 mm, embossed geometrical diaper pink French flapped wrappers with black and orange lettering to front; collated 8vo: 1-108, i.e. 80 leaves, pp.: [4] [1-4] 5-152 [4], plus 12 colour plates; woodcut t.p. vignette, head- and tailpieces in sanguine. Text printed on wove paper watermarked Marais, untrimmed, some leaves uncut; colour illustrations produced by half-tone relief photo reproduction technique and printed on thinner paper without a watermark. Colouring is most probably made by hand. Besides the presence of the platemarks, micro-photo reveals clear signs of the half-tone relief photomechanical reproduction method:
Title-page (red and black): SPADDY | COLETTE | OU | LES AMUSEMENTS DE BON TON | ROMAN | {vignette} | A SAINT – CLOUD | AU TEMPLE DE CYTHÈRE ||
Limitation: CE ROMAN, EDITÉ POUR DES AMATEURS ET | NON MIS DANS LE COMMERCE, A ETÉ TIRÉ | A 250 EXEMPLAIRES, SUR VELIN PUR FIL | DU MARAIS, NUMÉROTÉS A LA PRESSE. | Cet exemplaire porte le No 49
Catalogue Raisonné: Dutel III № 1254: second edition with reproduction plates, published in 1939. The 1st edition with the original plates after Bécat was published in c. 1938.
Honesterotica.com:
Colette, ou les amusements de bon ton (Colette, Good Time Amusements) was an important early commission from Bécat by the master clandestine publisher Maurice Duflou, to complement a text bordering on the outrageous by Johannès Gros…
Contributors: Spaddy [Johannès Gros] (French, 18.. – 1937) – author Maurice Duflou (French, 1885 – 1947) – publisher Paul-Émile Bécat (French, 1885 – 1960) – artist -
Title: The amorous drawings | {vignette} | of the | Marquis von Bayros | Part I | BRANDON HOUSE | NORTH HOLLYWOOD || Title page verso: A BRANDON HOUSE BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH | CYTHERA PRESS | COPYRIGHT 1968 BY CYTHERA PRESS | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. | MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA || Pagination: [1-3] 4-238 [2], 292 illustrations within pagination. Content: Preface by Wilhelm M. Busch, biography of Von Bayros by Johann Pilz, two essays by Von Bayros; 292 illustrations by Marquis Franz von Bayros; Part I and II in one volume. Exterior: 28 x 22 cm, publisher's green wrappers with yellow lettering and fac-simile drawing of von Bayros to cover, lettering to spine. A re-print softcover edition of the original Cythera Press 1st edition, see: LIB-2246.2019 -
Paperback, 21.5 x 13.6 cm, red and white original wrappers with black lettering, barcode label to front, previous owner’s black ink ms to h.t. Rene Shekerjian; pp.: [i-vii] viii-xxvi[1-3] 4-158 (total 184 pp.). Title-page: Morphology | of the | Folktale | by | V. Propp | First Edition Translated by Lawrence Scott with an Introduction by Svatava Pirkova-Jacobson | Second Edition Revised and Edited with a Preface by Louis A. Warner/New Introduction by Alan Dundes | University of Texas Press • Austin and London || Serial title: American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series | Volume 9/Revised Edition/1968 | [blank] Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, | and Linguistics | Publication 10/Revised Edition/1968 || Edition: 7th paperback printing. Contributors: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп [Vladimir Propp] (Russian, 1895 – 1970) For other editions, see [LIB-1710.2019] В. Я. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки (2-е изд.) — Л.: Изд-во ЛГУ, 1986; [LIB-3184.2023] В. Я. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки (1-е изд.) — Л.: Изд-во Ленинградского ун-та, 1946, and [LIB-1718.2019] В. Я. Пропп. Морфология сказки / Серия: Вопросы поэтики, вып. XII. — Л.: Academia, 1928. -
NEWSoftcover, light brown wrappers with French flaps, 163 x 110 mm, pp. [1-6] 7-357 [3]. Title-page: Venedikts Jerofejevs | MASKAVA | – | GAILĪŠI | No krievu valodas tulkojis | Uldis Tīrons | {Publisher’s device} | LIEPNIEKS & RITUPS || Translated from Russian by Uldis Tīrons Original title: Венедикт Ерофеев. Москва — Петушки Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Uldis Tīrons (Latvian, b. 1956) – translator -
Softcover, french flapped wrappers, 29 x 19 cm, in glassine dustjacket, text printed on laid paper, pp.: [1-10] 11-256 [8], total 264 pages plus 11 plates out of 12, hand-coloured etchings on wove paper laid in, extraneous to collation. Wrappers detached from the block. Some pages uncut. Below is the missing plate, according to honesterotica.com:
Title-page: LES FILLES | DE LOTH | • | et autres poèmes | érotiques | recueillis par le | Vidame de Bozegy | • | A SODOME | — Imprimerie de la Genèse — | 1933 ||
Edition limited to 500 copies, this is copy № 54.
Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 1575.
Edmond Dardenne Bernard [Vidame de Bozegy] (French, 20th c.) – author.
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Cover and title, in green and black: VINGT CONTES | DE BOCCACE / TRADUITS DE L’ITALIEN |PAR | ANTOINE LE MAÇON | ILLUSTRATIONS DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D’AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination : [4] 1-165 [7] with 19 black head- and tailpieces, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece, printed by J. Dumoulin and stencil-coloured (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier after gouache and watercolour drawings by Umberto Brunelleschi, plus 2 blank flyleaves; total 106 leaves. Limited edition of 3,000 copies, this is № 1630. Printed by Louis Malexis at Imprimerie J. Dumoulin, Paris (H. Barthélemy, director) on May 28, 1941. Binding: 20.5 x 13.5 cm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, vignettes and lettering to front wrapper and spine, publisher’s device to back wrapper. Contributors: Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian, 1313 – 1375) – author Antoine Le Maçon (French, c. 1500 – 1559) – translator Umberto Brunelleschi (Italian, 1879 – 1949) – artist Joseph Dumoulin (French, 1875 – 1953) – printer The first, 2-volume limited edition (2,500 copies) of Les Contes de Boccace Decameron (les cinq premières journées, les cinq dernières journées) was published by Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs in 1934 with 70 black and 32 colour designs after Brunelleschi – see [LIB-2813.2021]. Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique. -
Title (in red and black): CANDIDE | OU L'OPTIMISME | PAR | VOLTAIRE | ILLUSTRATIONS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D'AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination : [6] 1-163 [164][2], with 23 black tailpieces, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece, printed by A. Dantan and stencil-coloured (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier after gouache and watercolour drawings by Umberto Brunelleschi; total 102 leaves. Limited edition of 2500 copies, this is № 39. Printed at Imprimerie Coulouma, Argenteuil (H. Barthélemy, director) on July 15, 1933. Binding: 26.5 x 20.5 cm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, vignettes and lettering to front wrapper and spine, publisher’s device to back wrapper. Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique. -
Description: Softcover, 23 x 14.5 cm, original flapped wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in blue «WANDA DE S…. | FRANÇOISE | OU | LES PLAISIRS DU MARIAGE | AUX ALLÉES DES ROSES», leaves untrimmed. Title-page: WANDA DE S…. | FRANÇOISE | OU | LES PLAISIRS DU MARIAGE | {vignette} | AUX ALLÉES DES ROSES || Collation: [1]8 (1 blank in wrapper, 1 blank, h.t., t.p., f.t.p., 3 leaves of text), 2-148 154 (uncut), 116 leaves total plus 10 hand-coloured photogravures by anonymous, extraneous to collation. Pagination: [1-10] 11-224 [8], ils.; 232 pages total. Limitation: edition under subscription, limited to 600 copies of which 100 copies (№ 1-100) on pur fil and 500 copies (№ 101-600) on Vélin, this is № 142. Edition: 1st edition thus, printed by Maurice Darantiere, illustrated with 10 full-page coloured photogravures after an anonymous artist, attributed by some to Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan] and by some to Louis Berthomme Saint-André. According to J.-P. Dutel, the original watercolours in his collection signed Véronique. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970): 1605, p. 176; honesterotica.com. -
Paperback, 25.3 x 17.3 cm, burgundy flapped wrappers, pp.: [i-vii] viii-x, [2] [1] 2-356. Front wrapper: Picasso's | {vignette} | Brothel | Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | Wayne Andersen || Title-page: PICASSO'S BROTHEL | LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON | — | WAYNE ANDERSEN | {publisher’s device} | Other Press | New York || Wayne Andersen (American, 1928 – 2014) Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 – 1973) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
