Le Petit Chaperon rouge: Interprétation inédite / Dessins de Robert Lediable [i.e. Feodor Rojankovsky]. — À Robinson, sous une tonnelle, an 2000 [Paris, c. 1935].

Title-page (in manuscript): Le Petit Chaperon rouge | Interprétation inédite | Dessins | de | Robert Lediable | À Robinson | sous une tonnelle | An 2000 ||

Format:
Box: 235 × 197 mm
Boards: 214 × 167 mm
Pages: 213 × 168 mm

Boards in black goatskin with red edges, traversed by an incised red groove—vertical on the upper cover and horizontal on the lower—within a polished recess. Spine articulated with hinges of varied sizes, alternating black and grey.
Free endpapers in black moiré silk, red verso, and the Gérard Nordmann ex-libris bookplate. Blue/cream flyleaves. Three blank leaves to front and three to the rear.
Front blue/cream wrapper with embossed floral border and the embossed word ‘CAHIER’, hand-coloured, and ‘DU PETIT CHAPERON ROUGE’ added in manuscript with red India ink, uniformly.
24 leaves of cream paper with embossed border, unpaginated: 2 blank leaves, manuscript half-title and title, 18 leaves of drawings on recto (pencil, pastel, some with ink, unsigned), verso blank, followed by 2 blank leaves. Rear blue/cream wrapper without embossing. All edges gilt.

The volume is housed in a matching double-hinged presentation case, opening from both sides like a symmetrical shell, revealing a central recess for the book. Exterior in black sheepskin, with two hinged flaps meeting along a central line outlined in red. Interior flaps lined with faux wood marbled paper; recess shaped to the contour of the book and lined in black velvet. Binding and box designed and executed by G. Claes.

The paper used for this edition was likely sourced from a commercially available cahier—the kind often used by girls for diaries or schoolwork—suggesting a deliberately intimate and informal presentation beneath the refined binding.

Catalogue Raisonné: Éros invaincu 132; Gérard Nordmann 357

References:

1. Éros invaincu: La bibliothèque Gérard Nordmann. — Genève: Fondation Martin Bodmer; Paris: Cercle d’art, 2004. [LIB-2957.2022]
2. Bibliothèque érotique: Gérard Nordmann; Livres, manuscrits, dessins, photographies du XVIe au XXe siècle / Catalogues de ventes, première partie. — Paris: Christie’s, 2006. [LIB-2828.2021]

Provenance:
Former collection of Michel Simon — Jean-Pierre Dutel Library; Library of Gérard Nordmann

Contributors:
Feodor Rojankovsky (Фёдор Рожанковский) (Russian-French-American, 1891–1970), known as Rojan
Michel Simon (Swiss-French, 1895–1975)
Gérard Nordmann (Swiss, 1930–1997)