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NEWSoftcover volume 218 x 155 mm, French flapped wrappers in glassine jacket, with red lettering to front “UNE JEUNE FILLE | À LA PAGE”; pp.: [1-8] 9-139 [140] [4], i.e. 72 leaves total, incl. those in the wrapper, plus 10 photomechanically printed colour plates after Paul-Émile Bécat. Limited edition of 400 copies with 350 printed on vélin surfin paper numbered from 51 to 400; this is copy № 254. Title-page (red and black): HELENA VARLEY | UNE JEUNE FILLE | A LA PAGE | {fleuron} | A LA VILLA BRIGITTE | COLLECTION DES DEUX HÉMISPHÈRES || Imprint/Limitation: CETTE ÉDITION, NON MISE DANS LE COMMERCE | ET RÉSERVÉE A DES AMATEURS, A ÉTÉ TIRÉE | A 400 EXEMPLAIRES, TOUS NUMÉROTÉS A LA | PRESSE, A SAVOIR : | 50 EXEMPLAIRES SUR VELIN PUR FIL LAFUMA, | NUMÉROTÉS DE 1 A 50 ; | 350 EXEMPLAIRES SUR VELIN SURFIN, |NUMÉROTÉS DE 51 A 400. | EXEMPLAIRE N° 254 | Exemplaire sur vélin surfin. || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2564, p. 401. Honesterotica. Contributors: Nicolaï, Michèle [Varley, Helena] (French, 1896 – 1950) – author. Bécat, Paul-Émile (French, 1885 – 1960) – artist. Duflou, Maurice (French, 1885 – 1951) – publisher. -
NEWSoftcover volume 248 x 200 mm, French flapped wrappers in glassine jacket, with a vignette and dark blue lettering to front, printed on very thick Arches paper, all margins untrimmed, unbound: 6 quires folded in 4to; ms text and images produced in dry point, frontispiece vignette hand-coloured; collation: 2 blank, 1 tp, 1 editor's note, 24 text, 1 blank, 1 colophon, i.e. 30 leaves total, those within the wrapper not counted; paginated with Roman numbers I to XLVI. Limited edition of 300 copies; this is copy № 28 of 285 printed on Arches paper. Title-page (blue and black): LE MARIAGE | DE | SUZON | Journal Secret | {vignette} | Aux dépens | des Amis de Cupidon || Colophon: Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage : | 5 exemplaires sur Japon super-nacré, conte- | nant chacun deux dessins originaux, | numérotés de 1 à 5; | 10 exemplaires sur Japon impérial, contenant | chacun un dessin original, numérotés de 6 à 15; | 285 exemplaires sur vélin d'Arches, numérotés | de 16 à 300. | Exemplaire N° 28 || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 1927, p. 253; Honesterotica. For published in 1935 Suzon en vacances: Journal secret d’une jeune fille, see LIB-3409.2025 (Dutel III № 2473).For the pirated reprint of the same published in the late 1940s, see LIB-2935.2022 (Dutel III № 2578).
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Both Suzon en vacances and Le Mariage de Suzon are attributed to Léon Courbouleix (French, 1887 – 1972). Seller's note: Le Mariage de Suzon. In-4, 25 x 20 cm de 30 ff. n. ch. dont 2 ff. n. ch., 1 p. de titre imprimée en bleu et noir avec vignette imprimée en noir, 1 p. d'avertissement des éditeurs, 1 frontispice en couleur, 46 pages entièrement gravées à la pointe sèche (texte et illustration), 1 f. de justification du tirage. Les illustrations courent autour du texte tout au long des feuillets. Couverture rempliée, impression en bleu, illustrée d'un portrait en pied de la mariée, gravé en couleur. Tirage à 300 ex. Édition originale en premier tirage de ces deux ouvrages réunissant 2 frontispice pointes sèches en couleur et 92 pointes sèches. Dutel voit un étui pour Suzon en vacances et pas d'étui pour Le Mariage de Suzon. Nos deux volumes sont sans étui. Pour préfacer Suzon en vacances, Léon Courbouleix joint l'humour au libertinage: « Nous demandons au lecteur qui va ouvrir ce livre un peu d'indulgence. Ce journal a été écrit par une jeune fille de seize ans, il y a bien longtemps. Nous le publions in-extenso, lui conservant ainsi toute sa saveur primesautière. S'il pèche par le style et la forme littéraire, il n'en reste pas moins un document humain qui répond parfaitement à la question souvent posée et jamais résolue: « À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles? » C'est signé : « Les Éditeurs ». Bibliographie : Pia 1384 et 884, Dutel 2473 et 1927.
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NEWSoftcover volume 250 x 200 mm, French flapped wrappers in glassine jacket, with a vignette and dark blue lettering to front, printed on watermarked Arches paper, all margins untrimmed, unbound, unpaginated, 6 quires folded in 4to; ms text and images produced in dry point, frontispiece vignette hand-coloured; collation: 1 blank, 1 tp, 1 editor's note, 24 text, 1 colophon, i.e. 28 leaves, leaves within the wrapper not counted. Limited edition of 300 copies; this is copy № 126 of 285 printed on Arches paper. Title-page (blue and black): SUZON | EN | VACANCES | Journal Secret | d'une Jeune Fille | {vignette} | Aux dépens | des Amis de Cupidon || Colophon: Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage : | 5 exemplaires sur Japon super-nacré, conte- | nant chacun deux dessins originaux, | numérotés de 1 à 5; | 10 exemplaires sur Japon impérial, contenant | chacun un dessin original, numérotés de 6 à 15; | 285 exemplaires sur vélin d'Arches, numérotés | de 16 à 300. | Exemplaire N° 126 || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2473, p. 397; Honesterotica. For the pirated reprint, published in the late 1940s, see LIB-2935.2022 (Dutel III № 2578).For published in the late 1930s (1937?) Le mariage de Suzon: Journal secret, see LIB-3410.2025 (Dutel III № 1927).LIB-2935.2022 (Dutel III № 2578).
Both Suzon en vacances and Le Mariage de Suzon are attributed to Léon Courbouleix (French, 1887 – 1972). Seller's note: Suzon en vacances. In-4 écu, 25 x 20 cm de 30 ff. n. ch. dont le frontispice en couleur, 1 titre imprimée en bleu et noir avec vignette imprimée en noir, 1 p. d'avertissement des éditeurs, 46 pages entièrement gravées à la pointe sèche (texte et illustration), 1 p. de justification du tirage. Le texte court autour des illustrations tout au long des feuillets (piqûres). Couverture rempliée, impression en bleu, illustrée d'un portrait gravé en couleur. Tirage à 300 ex.
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NEWSoftcover volume 250 x 190 mm in publisher’s French flapped wrappers in glassine jacket, marbled with red lettering, in a double slipcase 257 x 196 mm with printed imitation of toile de Jouy; printed on watermarked BFK Rives paper, outer and lower margins untrimmed, unbound, folded quires in 4to, pp.: [1-6] 7-116 [4], leaves in the wrappers not counted, plus 12 plates – coloured etchings by Suzanne Ballivet – within collation; tissue guards laid in. Title-page (red and black): HONORÉ - GABRIEL RIQUETTI | COMTE DE MIRABEAU | le rideau levé | ou | L'EDUCATION | de | LAURE | {fleuron} | AUX ÉDITIONS DU PRIAPE D'ARGENT | — | AVEC PRIVILEGE DU ROY || Colophon: LA PREMIÈRE PARTIE DU RIDEAU LEVÉ, | A ÉTÉ ACHEVÉE D'IMPRIMER EN MARS | 1794, SUR LES PRESSES DE MAITRE BRUTUS | NICAISE, A VERSAILLES. | DANS LA SECONDE PARTIE DE CET OU- | VRAGE, TIRÉE TRÈS PROCHAINEMENT LE | LECTEUR RETROUVERA LAURE, LA JEUNE | HEROINE DE CE RECIT, QUI, EN UN LAN- | GAGE DÉNUÉ DE CETTE FAUSSE PUDEUR, | CHERE AUX HYPOCRITES, CONTERA LES | PRÉMICES DE SON INITIATION AUX | JOUTES AMOUREUSES | 🖤 || Justification du tirage. Le tirage de cette édition a été rigoureusement limité a cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept exemplaires. Sa composition s'effectue de la façon suivante : Un exemplaire unique sur Japon Imperial portant le numéro 1 ; Douze exemplaires sur grand papier de Rives a la forme numérotés de 2 a 13 ; Vingt-quatre exemplaires sur grand papier de Rives a la forme, numérotés de 14 a 37 ; Cent soixante exemplaires sur grand papier de Rives a la forme, numérotes de 38 a 197. Enrichis d'une suite des remarques [sv: lacking]. Il a été tiré en outre : vingt-six exemplaires marqués de A à z, destinés à un groupe de bibliophiles d’Afrique du nord. Exemplaire N° 190. Limitation: This is copy № 190 of the print run of 197 commercial copies. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2333, p. 350 ; Honesterotica. Contributors: Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de (French, 1749 – 1791) – author. Suzanne Ballivet (French, 1904 – 1985) – artist. -
NEW"The Jewish Hungarian artist Nicolas Sternberg moved to Paris in the 1920s, remaining there for the rest of his life, hiding during the German occupation of the city in the 1940s under false identity papers". [MIA: Minneapolis Institute of Art, cited] Jean-Pierre Dutel provides the following information: Nicolas Sternberg was born to Jewish parents on July 9, 1902, in Nagyvárad, in Austro-Hungary. According to the archives of the Préfecture de police in Paris (1930), he was Hungarian. His real name was Miklós Szines-Sternberg. At the time, it was common among painters and sculptors to retain their original German names while adopting Hungarian-German double surnames. From age twelve, he worked as a newspaper illustrator in Budapest before moving to Paris in the early 1920s after studying in Munich. He published regularly in Paris-Soir, one of the most important French daily newspapers between the wars. Despite his talent, only one solo exhibition seems to have been dedicated to him at the Galerie Georges Petit (Georges Petit, 1856–1920) in 1929. Jules Pascin (1885 –1930) exhibited there in 1930 and committed suicide on the opening day. Sternberg is known for his drawings devoted to the circus, madmen, and pornography. He excelled in portraits and self-portraits, particularly fine portraits of his wife Miche and his friend Michel Simon (1895–1975). In 1927, he made drawings for Les Flambeaux de la Noce, a play at the Comédie-Française. He also contributed to the illustration of La Légende des sexes by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 –1941). In 1930, he created illustrations for Les Aventures du Roi Pausole by Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925), published by Simon Kra (1853–1940), and for an edition of the bawdy songs Les Trois Orfèvres à la Saint Éloi, which led to an investigation into its publisher and illustrator. He also produced original watercolours for an edition of Manuel de Civilité by Pierre Louÿs. In 1933, he illustrated Madame de Pompadour by Paul Reboux (1877 –1963). In 1937, Sternberg illustrated Souls and Secrets, a collection of Hasidic stories by József Patai (1882–1953), translated by his son, the anthropologist, ethnologist, and historian Raphael Patai (Budapest, 1910 – Tucson, 1996), who kept some of Sternberg’s works in his home. Portraits of Michel Simon dating from 1932, along with numerous pornographic photographs of Sternberg taken by the actor between 1940 and 1960, demonstrate the longevity of their relationship. In 1940, Sternberg miraculously escaped the Nazi’s aerial bombardment that killed several members of his family. During the Occupation, he lived in hiding with false papers and resumed his career in Paris after the war. Despite visual differences, Jules Pascin and Nicolas Sternberg shared some curious similarities. Their works, though employing different techniques, reflect the same underlying despair. Like Pascin, Sternberg committed suicide. -
NEWHardcover volume 230 x 135 mm, bound in brown buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in craft paper dust jacket with lettering and vignette, and blurb on flaps; collated 8vo: A-O8, i.e. 112 sheets, pp: [1-8] 9-221 [222] [2 blank], plus frontispiece in colour and four leaves of b/w plates after p. 96; First UK edition. Title-page (in cresting frame): THE MEMOIRS | OF AN | EROTIC | BOOKSELLER | by | ARMAND COPPENS | assisted by his | tired wife | CLEMENTINE | and her | distant lover | VOLUME ONE | ⚜ | LONDON: LUXOR PRESS || Imprint: © Armand Coppens, 1969 | Made and printed in | Great Britain by | C. Tinling and Co Ltd | Liverpool, London and Prescot | and | published by | LUXOR PRESS LTD | 50 Alexandra Road | London s w 19 […] || Contributors: Schors, Willem Nicolas [Coppens, Armand] (Dutch, 1925 – 2014) Luxor Press (London) — owner Charles Skilton (British, c.1922 – 1990) -
NEWHardcover volume 180 x 135 mm, blue buckram, embossed black and gilt lettering and vignettes to front and spine, stapled. Collation 8vo: 1-258 264, pp.: [2] 3-405 [406] [2], i.e. 204 leaves plus 13 plates after Boris Efimov and portrait frontispiece after J. M. Holder extraneous to collation; all plates are photomechanical reproductions. This book was published by "Художественная литература" after Academia Publishing, which prepared the edition, had been shut down by the Soviet State in 1938. A reprint of this book with different illustrations was published by Ивановское книжное изд-во in 1959 (see LIB-3349.2024). Title-page (blue and black): Вильгельм Гауф | (in ribbon) СКАЗКИ | {vignette} | 1938 | Государственное издательство | «Художественная Литература» | Москва || Colophon: Книга подготовлена изд-вом «Academia»; print run 10,000 copies. Contents: КАРАВАН. Перевод Н. Г. Касаткиной Рассказ о калифе аисте Рассказ о корабле приведений Рассказ об отрубленной руке Спасение Фатимы Рассказ о Маленьком Муке Сказка о мнимом принце АЛЕКСАНДРИЙСКИЙ ШЕЙХ И ЕГО НЕВОЛЬНИКИ. Перевод И. С. Татариновой Карлик Нос Обезьяна в роли человека История Альмансора ХАРЧЕВНЯ В ШПЕССАРТЕ. Перевод М. А. Полиевктовой Рассказ о гульдене с изображением оленя Холодное сердце. Часть первая. Приключения Саида Стинфольская пещера. Шотландское предание Холодное сердце. Часть вторая. Contributors: Wilhelm Hauff [Вильгельм Гауф] (German, 1802 – 1827) – author. Касаткина, Наталья Григорьевна (Russian, 1902 – 1985) – translator. Татаринова, Ирина Сергеевна (Russian, 1895 – 1978) – translator. Полиевктова, Мария Александровна (Russian, 1892 – 1982) – translator. Пуриц, Елена Феликсовна (Jewish-Russian, 1910 – 1997) – foreword. Ефимов, Борис Ефимович [Фридлянд; Yefimov, Boris] (Jewish-Russian, 1900 – 2008) – artist, plates. Holder, Johann Michael (German, 1796 – 1861) – artist / frontis. portrait, after. -
NEWThe top cover of the French humouristic weekly Le Rire № 631, 7 Mars 1931. Lettering: № 631 – 7 Mars 1931 … S.A.D.E.P. … Le Numéro : 1 fr. 50 | Le Rire | JOURNAL HUMORISTIQUE PARAISSANT LE SAMEDI | — Dis donc, maman, ce qu'il doit être curieux, le / Monsieur d'en face, ça fait une heure qu'il cherche à / lire le titre de ton livre. | Dessin de ROJANKOVSKY. Publisher: S.A.D.E.P. => Éditions: Société Auxilliaire pour la Diffusion des Éditions de Productivité — 11, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. Artist: Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-French-American, 1891 – 1970) -
NEWDrypoint on cream cardstock 230 x 206 mm with plate mark 101 x 112 mm, signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the plate mark. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWDrypoint on cream cardstock 160 x 212 mm with plate mark 97 x 120 mm, signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the plate mark. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWDrypoint on cream cardstock 230 x 207 mm with plate mark 102 x 120 mm, signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the plate mark. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWDrypoint with plate mark 90 x 105 mm on cream cardstock in two states: (1) two copies 155 x 230 mm, signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the plate mark. (2) 155 x x 225 mm signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the plate mark and with the letter 'd' in pencil above the plate mark. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWSepia drypoint with plate mark 55 x 70 mm on cream cardstock in two states: (1) 115 x 155 mm, unsigned (2) 115 x 155 mm, signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the plate mark. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWSanguine drypoint with plate mark 102 x 90 mm on cream cardstock in two states: (1) 227 x 203 mm, signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the plate mark. (2) 230 x x 203 mm signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the plate mark and with the letter 'd' in pencil above the plate mark. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWSanguine drypoint with platemark 130 x 150 mm on cream cardstock in two states: (1) 209 x 212 mm, signed 'ORS' in pencil on the margin below the platemark. (2) 206-214 x x 224-228 mm with letter 'd' in pencil above the platemark. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWDrypoint on cream cardstock 208 x 207 mm with platemark 100 x 122 mm, monogrammed "ORS" in pencil outside the plate. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWSanguine drypoint on cream cardstock 230 x 155 mm with platemark 153 x 79 mm, monogrammed "ORS" in pencil. Inscription in pencil to bottom: "Letzter Abzug x. 49". Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWNine loose drypoint plates on cream cardstock of different sizes (sheet, platemark, signature in pencil to margin) SVE-0585.2024-1: 183 x 183 mm; 101 x 80 mm; ORS SVE-0585.2024-2: 219 x 195 mm; 102 x 80 mm; –– SVE-0585.2024-3: 183 x 187 mm; 102 x 84 mm; –– SVE-0585.2024-4: 183 x 184 mm; 103 x 81 mm; ORS SVE-0585.2024-5: 183 x 186 mm; 102 x 80 mm; ORS SVE-0585.2024-6: 220 x 194 mm; 102 x 83 mm; ORS SVE-0585.2024-7: 158 x 108 mm; 101 x 79 mm; ORS SVE-0585.2024-8: 110 x 158 mm; 83 x 102 mm; –– SVE-0585.2024-9: 158 x 109 mm; 101 x 81 mm; ORS Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWTwelve loose drypoint plates on cream cardstock of different sizes (sheet, platemark, signature in pencil to margin) SVE-0584.2024-1: 185 x 183 mm; 103 x 80 mm –– SVE-0584.2024-2: 138 x 103 mm; 103 x 82 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-3: 201 x 142 mm; 104 x 82 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-4: 200 x 144 mm; 103 x 80 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-5: 158 x 110 mm; 102 x 81 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-6: 141 x 103 mm; 103 x 82 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-7: 200 x 141 mm; 103 x 82 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-8: 230 x 207 mm; 122x 100 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-9: 205 x 155 mm; 132 x 102 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-10: 200 x 230 mm; 101 x 131 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-11: 230 x 206 mm; 80 x 130 mm; ORS SVE-0584.2024-12: 228 x 206 mm; 100 x 91 mm; ORS Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWGraphite on wove paper, 281 x 209 mm, remnants of red pencil signature in the bottom right corner, traces of mounting hinges to recto. Attributed to: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWPen and ink drawing on paper, 285 x 184 mm, black ink stamp “PROF. O R SCHATS | Wien II.. Gr. Mohreng, 31 | Tel.: 55 82 566", remnants of mounting hinges to the drawing side; unsigned. Black stamp "Kunst bei Kenst" and blue ballpen ms signed "DKFM E. Kenst" to recto . Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWDrawing on both sides upside down; pen and ink on paper, 255 x 170 mm, black ink stamp “PROF. O R SCHATS | Wien II.. Gr. Mohreng, 31 | Tel.: 55 82 566", remnants of mounting hinges; unsigned. Attributed to Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWGraphite on wove paper, 240 x 300 mm, blue ink stamp to verso: “PROF. O R SCHATZ" and pencil "67"; traces of mounting hinges. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWTwo loose sheets, one 295 x 235 mm and another, the title page, 295 x 470 mm, folded in half with the image on one side only, leaves pierced for being bound in an album. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWAlbum of 10 watercolour drawings on thick wove paper sheets 315 x 245 mm, incl. title and colophon, plus one blank sheet before the title page, in Japanese stab binding — cardboard covers with stripes and ribbons marbling, sewed with blue thread. Signed and dated on the rearmost sheet. Versuch (German)— trial, experiment, test, attempt. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWAlbum of 17 watercolour drawings on thick wove paper sheets 265 x 205 mm, incl. title and colophon, in Japanese stab binding — cardboard covers with yellow and grey stripes sewed with pink thread. Signed and dated. The conditional title of the album may be "Girl's Toy". Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWEleven loose sheets, approx. 250 x 230 mm each, numbered in the bottom left corner in pencil (by owner?), with five binding holes in the left margin, traces of passe-partout mounting to verso; no title sheet. It is probably a disbound watercolour album telling the same story as the printed Der Kleine Bruder (see SVE-0581.2024). Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWTwelve drypoint plates, incl. the title, with plate marks at 90 x 70 mm, unsigned, in Japanese style binding — sewed cardboard covers with blue and green diaper design 195 x 142 mm; blank fly leaves in the front and the rear. Dorotheum GmbH selling slip laid in. The number of printed copies is unknown to us. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWMass-market paperback 188 x 120 mm, red and black lettering and vignette to front, lettering to back (advert.) and spine, pp.: [1-5] 6-190 [2]; collated 8vo: 1-128, i.e. 96 leaves. Title-page: ★ ★ ★ | PUBERTÉ | JOURNAL D'UNE ÉCOLIÉRE | TEXTE INTÉGRAL | • | PARIS | LES EDITIONS RAOUL SAILLARD | 30, RUE D'ENGHIEN, 30 | Copyright, 1933, by Les Éditions Saillard. || Colophon: ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER SUR LES | PRESSES DE CH. VINCHE, 10, RUÉ | DAVID, VERVIERS (BELGIQUE), POUR | LES ÉDITIONS RAOUL SAILLARD, | 30, RUE D'ENGHIEN, 30, PARIS. || -
NEWPublisher’s pink wrappers 376 x 277 mm and spine preserved by being bound in ¾ red morocco over marbled boards 384 x 285 mm outlined in gilt by Semet & Plumelle (stamp to free endpaper verso); marbled endpapers, raised bands, gilt and black decorated compartments, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt. Collation: 2 ffl, front wrapper, half-title with autograph “A Robert … Vertès 1956” and original gouache vignette / limitation imprint, title-page in turquoise and black / blank, i-iii [iv], 1-45 [2 table/colophon], back wrapper, spine, 2 ffl, plus two sets of 12 plates by Marcel Vertès – one on laid paper (vélin) and one on wove paper (chine), and one additional lithograph on thick wove paper laid in. Limited edition of 100 copies on vellum (Papier d'Annam) №№ 1-100 and 500 copies on Vélin pur fil Lafuma №№ 101-600. This copy is № 57. For another copy in this collection without the number, see LIB-2893.2021. Title-page (turquoise and black): LES JEUX | DU DEMI-JOUR | PAR | PIERRE MAC ORLAN | {vignette} | AVEC | DOUZE LITHOGRAPHIES DE | VERTÈS | LES ARTS ET LE LIVRE | 47, RUE LAFFITTE, PARIS | — | 1926 || Imprint: EXEMPLAIRE SUR PAPIER D'ANNAM | N° 57 (signed 'Vertès' in pencil) || Colophon: LE PRÉSENT ALBUM, ACHEVÉ | D'IMPRIMER POUR LE TEXTE | PAR LE MAITRE IMPRIMEUR | COULOUMA, D'ARGENTEUIL, | H. BARTHELEMY ETANT DIREC- | TEUR, ET POUR LES LITHOGRA- | PHIES PAR DUCHATEL, A PARIS, | A ÉTÉ TIRÉ A 600 EXEMPLAIRES | DONT 100 EXEMPLAIRES SUR | PAPIER D'ANNAM (TEXTE) ET | CHINE (HORS-TEXTE) AVEC UNE | SUITE SUR VELIN BLANC, NUME- | ROTES DE I A 100 ET 500 EXEM- | PLAIRES SUR VELIN PUR FIL LA- | FUMA, NUMÉROTÉS DE 101 A 600. Catalogue raisonné: Vokaer № 9, p. 8. Contributors: Pierre Mac-Orlan (French, 1882 – 1970) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes Seller's description: Les Jeux du Demi-Jour. Avec douze lithographies de Vertès. Paris, Les Arts et Le Livre, 1926. In-folio, demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs finement orné, titre doré, filet doré sur les plats, tête dorée, couverture et dos conservés (Semet & Plumelle). Vignette de titre et 12 lithographies originales hors-texte de Marcel VERTÈS. Premier tirage et édition originale tirée à 600 exemplaires numérotés ; n°57 des 100 sur Annam (texte) et chine (hors texte) avec suite sur vélin blanc, enrichi d'un grand DESSIN ORIGINAL au feutre et à l'aquarelle avec envoi signé ("à Robert ...") et daté 1956. -
NEWHardcover, 306 x 235 mm, bound in crimson cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, marbled endpapers; pp.: [1-4] 5-112, illustrated in b/w and colour throughout. Title-page: (in floral frame) ART | and | FASHION | By | MARCEL VERTES | In Collaboration with Bryan Holme | {vignette} | THE STUDIO PUBLICATIONS INC. • NEW YORK AND LONDON || Imprint: Printed in the U.S.A. by The Plantin Press and Albert Davis, Samuel Faber, Colorist. Catalogue Raisonné: Vokaer № 43, p. 17. Contributors: Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist/author Holme, Bryan (American, 1913 – 1990) – co-author Davis, George (American, 1906 – 1957) – translator -
NEWGraphite and watercolour on wove paper, 220 x 277 mm, upper margin trimmed to cut heads of the characters. Pencil sketch and a blue ink stamp “Nachlaß O R SCHATZ", traces of hinges to verso. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWHardcover, 150 x 110 mm, greyish brown cloth with brown embossed vignette to front, brown lettering to spine, top margin brown, pp.: [1-8] 9-241 [3], collated 8vo: 1-158, 162, i.e. 122 leaves, plus six woodcut plates, extraneous to collation; woodcut head- and tailpieces, vignettes. No dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ЛИРИКА | ДРЕВНЕЙ ЭЛЛАДЫ | В ПЕРЕВОДАХ РУССКИХ ПОЭТОВ | Собрал и комментировал | Я. Голосовкер | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Contra-title (red and black): АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | под общей редакцией | Д. А. Горбова, В. О. Нилендера | и П. Ф. Преображенского | ЛИРИКА | ДРЕВНЕЙ ЭЛЛАДЫ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: Гравюры на дереве художника | М. И. Пикова | Переплет по его же рисунку || Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Печатный двор (Л.) / Полиграфкнига Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 743, p. 265. Contributors: Голосовкер, Яков Эммануилович [Яків Еммануїлович] (Ukrainian-Jewish, 1890 – 1967) – compiler/foreword/comments Пиков, Михаил Иванович (Russian, 1903 – 1973) – artist, wood engraver -
NEWHardcover, 150 x 108 mm, blue cloth red embossed vignette to front, red lettering to spine; pp. [2] 5-97 [3], collated 8vo: 17, 2-68 72, i.e. 49 leaves plus four plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation, leaf 11 missing or published without it. No dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ЭСХИЛ | ПРИКОВАННЫЙ | ПРОМЕТЕЙ | Перевод, статья | и комментарии | Адр. Пиотровского | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Imprint: Фронтиспис и рисунки – фототипии с офортов М. А. Доброва. Супер и переплет по его же рисункам. Заставки и концовки выполнены автоцинкографией. Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Красный пролетарий (М). Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 789, p. 272. Contributors: Aeschylus [Эсхил, Αἰσχύλος] (Greek, 525 – 456 BC) – author. Пиотровский, Адриан Иванович [Piotrovsky, Adrian] (Russian, 1898 – 1937) – translator, killed by the Soviet State on November 21, 1937. Добров, Матвей Алексеевич (Russian, 1877 – 1958) – artist. -
NEWZeugnis (Grade book) – a set of fifteen plates, incl. the title page and the colophon, that tells the story of a schoolgirl whose parents spanked her for not being a good student. Watercolour and ink on 244 x 344 mm cream laid paper with Hahnemühle's watermark (rooster with a shield), signed and dated in manuscript on the last page (colophon) "O. R. SCHATZ | 1954 | X", unbound (disbound), with four binding holes in the left margin of each sheet; no boards. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWWatercolour, pen and ink on laid paper 313 x 265 mm; each monogrammed "ORS” in manuscript; seven ex-album holes along the left margin. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWCardboard clamshell box of red buckram over marbled paper 360 x 260 mm, contains 13 drawings (watercolour and pen on paper), wove paper sheets approx. 220 x 190 mm, title page mounted on a blank sheet and monogrammed 'ORS", others in passe-partout 350 x 250 mm, unsigned. Artist: Otto Rudolf Schatz (Austrian, 1900 – 1961). -
NEWGreen paper cardboard flapped portfolio 325 x 235 mm with the pasted label "• ENTRÉE • | INTERDITE | AU | PUBLIC", contains a folded by half in-folio sheet with the title "INTERDITE | AU | PUBLIC", limitation statement "TIRÉ A 250 EXEMPLAIRES TOUS SUR JAPON IMPÉRIAL | N° 22", and a notice by Pierre Mac-Orlan; and 20 loose leaves of plates—heliogravures, printed in black, bistre, red or green on Japon Impérial laid paper ~ 275 x 210 mm, each in a passepartout 314 x 226 mm, plate marks from 63x92 to 220x277 mm. According to J.-P. Dutel № 1487, pp. 150/1, five of these prints have not been published before, while fifteen are copies of two original works by Vertés:- Six from Le Pays A Mon Gout: 12 etchings. — Paris: [n.p.], 1921; Limited to 550 copies.
- Nine from L'Heure exquise: 20 pointes sèches originales. — Paris [Vienne], 1920 ; Limited to 200 copies.
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NEWRed cloth portfolio 313 x 250 mm, with gilt lettering in frame to front, contains an in-folio brochure (4 sheets folded in-half), unbound, pp. [2] 3-15 [1], plus 24 leaves of loose plates 300 x 239 mm; title page, full-length photo portrait of Pilotell by Charles Reutlinger (German-French, 1816 – 1881), autograph of the former, and a copy of his birth certificate. Printed by l'Imprimerie Union in Paris in 1970 (2nd edition). Portfolio title: AVANT | PENDANT ET APRÈS | LA | COMMUNE || Title-page: PILOTELL | Dessinateur et Communard | PAR | CHARLES FELD | LIVRE-CLUB DIDEROT – PARIS || Contributors: Pilotell [Pilotelle, Georges Raoul Eugène] (French, 1845 – 1918) Feld, Charles Léon Salomon (Jewish-French, 1919 – 1995) Imprimerie Union (Paris, 1910 – 1995) -
NEWTwo hardcover volumes, 222 x 148 mm, uniformly bound in grey cloth with red and black lettering to front board and spine. 1: В. С. НЕЧАЕВА | Журнал | М. М. и Ф. М. Достоевских | «ВРЕМЯ» | 1861–1863 | {publisher’s device} | — | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА | 1972 ||; pp. [1-4] 5-316 [4], errata slip tipped in. Print run 4,900 copies. 2: В. С. НЕЧАЕВА | Журнал | М. М. и Ф. М. Достоевских | «ЭПОХА» | 1864–1865 | {publisher’s device} | — | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | МОСКВА | 1975 ||; pp. [1-4] 5-301 [3], errata slip tipped in. Print run 8,000 copies. Blue ink stamp "Из книг А. Б. Муратова" to ffl. Достоевский, Михаил Михайлович [Dostoevsky, Mikhail] (Russian, 1820 – 1864) Достоевский, Фёдор Михайлович [Dostoevsky, Fyodor] (Russian, 1821 – 1881) Нечаева, Вера Степановна (Russian, 1895 – 1979) Муратов Аскольд Борисович (Russian, 1937 – 2005) -
NEWHardcover, 220 x 175 mm, cloth spine over blue floral paper boards, pp.: [1-6] 7-69 [3], 21 leaves of plates. Title-page: Михаил | ГЕРМАН | В. ДВОРАКОВСКИЙ | «ХУДОЖНИК РСФСР» | Ленинград | 1970 || Print run: 3,000 copies. Герман, Михаил Юрьевич (Russian, 1933 – 2018) Двораковский, Валериан Дмитриевич (Russian, 1904 – 1979) -
NEWPaperback, 168 x 126 mm, publisher’s woodcut wrappers, stapled brochure, pp.: [2] 3-14 [2], oval blue ink stamp «Ленинградское Общество Кустарей и Ремесленников – Библиотека». Title-page: ДЕШЕВАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА ЖУРНАЛА “КАТОРГА И ССЫЛКА”. (rule) | В. Д. ВИЛЕНСКИЙ-СИБИРЯКОВ | КРОВАВОЕ | ВОСКРЕСЕНЬЕ | 9-Е ЯНВАРЯ 1905 ГОДА | МОСКВА | 1925. || Print run: 20,000 copies. Виленский-Сибиряков, Владимир Дмитриевич (Russian, 1888 – 1942), author, died in GULAG. -
NEWHardcover, 254 x 190 mm, brown cloth with black and gilt vignette to front, gilt lettering to front and spine, pictorial endpapers, yellow pictorial dust jacket, collated 8vo: 1-248, i.e. 192 leaves, pp.: [1-7] 8-379 [5]; woodcut h.-t., t.p., faux-title, 12 book titles, initials, tail-pieces, and dust jacket. Woodcut title-page: ВЕРГИЛИЙ | ЭНЕИДА | (white on black) ПЕРЕВОД | ВАЛЕРИЯ БРЮСОВА | И | СЕРГЕЯ СОЛОВЬЕВА | РЕДАКЦИЯ, | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | И КОММЕНТАРИИ | Н. Ф. ДЕРАТАНИ || Woodcut half-title: ПАМЯТНИКИ МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | ВЕРГИЛИЙ | ЭНЕИДА | Academia | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1933 || Imprint (t.p. verso): P. VERGILII MARONIS | ÆNEIS | Супер-обложка и орнаментация книги (гравюры на дереве), | переплет и форзац работы Л. С. Хижинского || Print run: 5300 copies Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 529, p. 230. Contributors: Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro; Вергилий] (Roman, 70 BC – 19 BC) Брюсов, Валерий Яковлевич [Bryusov, Valery] (Russian, 1873 – 1924) Соловьёв, Сергей Михайлович (Russian, 1885 – 1942) Дератани, Николай Фёдорович (Russian, 1884 – 1958) Хижинский, Леонид Семёнович [Khizhinsky, Leonid] (Soviet, 1896 – 1972) -
NEWHardcover, 252 x 190 mm, green cloth with gilt vignettes to front and back, and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, collated 8vo: 1-108 114, i.e. 84 leaves, pp.: [1-7] 8-166 [2], incl. two engraved faux-titles. Title-page (green and black): ВЕРГИЛИЙ | СЕЛЬСКИЕ | ПОЭМЫ | БУКОЛИКИ | ГЕОРГИКИ | ❧ | ПЕРЕВОД | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | И КОММЕНТАРИИ | С. ШЕРВИНСКОГО | {VIGNETTE} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ~ ЛЕНИНГРАД | MCMXXXIII || Contra-title (green and black): Сокровища мировой литературы | ВЕРГИЛИЙ | БУКОЛИКИ | и | ГЕОРГИКИ | {VIGNETTE} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ~ ЛЕНИНГРАД | MCMXXXIII || T.p. verso: PUBLII VERGILI MARONIS | BUCOLICA ET GEORGICA | Титульные листы, супер-обложка, переплет | и форзац по рисункам П. А. Шиллинговского || Print run: 5,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 528, p. 230. Contributors: Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro; Вергилий] (Roman, 70 BC – 19 BC) Шервинский, Сергей Васильевич (Russian, 1892 – 1991) Шиллинговский, Павел Александрович (Russian, 1881 – 1942) -
NEWPaperback, 240 x 155 mm, publisher’s wrappers, series red label of Cahiers des Annales Publiés avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, red vertical rule and black lettering to front, black lettering to spine, and red and black lettering to back; collated 8vo: 1-158 χ2, i.e. 122 leaves, pp.: [i-vi] vii-viii, 1-234 [2]. Autograph dedication signed by Maurice Dommanget to Pierre Dumayet, blue ballpen ms at the top of ffl « À Pierre Dumayet | En Souvenir et bien cordialement | Dommanget ». Title-page: CAHIERS DES ANNALES | 14 | MAURICE DOMMANGET | BLANQUI | ET L'OPPOSITION | RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE | à la fin | du Second Empire | {publisher’s device « economies – sociétés – civilisation » } | LIBRAIRIE ARMAND COLIN | 103, boulevard Saint-Michel, PARIS - 5e | 1960 || Contents: De Belle-Île à la Conciergerie. Vues et action politiques à Sainte-Pélagie. L'action à l'hôpital Necker. Le séjour à Bruxelles et l'action des étudiants blanquistes. L'action blanquiste, de décembre 1867 à la grève du Creusot. Le Blanquisme et l'Internationale. Contributors: Dommanget, Maurice (French, 1888 – 1976) Dumayet, Pierre (French, 1923 – 2011) Blanqui, Auguste (French, 1805 – 1881) -
NEWA cardboard file 298 x 225 mm made of quarter red cloth over marbled paper, with laces, contains 18 loose chromolithographs approx.190 x 130 mm, 8 vertical and 10 horizontal) in a passepartout 275 x 220 mm (matted) of laid paper with an armorial watermark, with lewd humorous captions on glassine guard tissue attached to each sheet, upper and outer margins uncut. Images signed “–Santippa–36”.Label to front cover lettered Variations Amoureuses | avec 18 gravures en couleurs ||. No title page. It is quite likely that the set exists in only one copy. Description by seller: Album in-folio, 272 x 218 cm. En feuilles, sous chemise cartonnée à lacets de l'éditeur. Les lithographies sont respectivement intitulées : Branlade; Plaisir Champêtre; Justice; Entre Marins ; Cocher; Suce-moi bien ; Encore; Les Joies; Un Marin; On raconte ; Plaisir Divin ; Le Marin; Quand un Gendarme ; soixante et Neuf; Tous les Moyens ; Le Plus Cochon; Le Fantassin; Coup Double. Le peintre Gaston Hoffmann (1883-1977), consacra la majeure partie de son œuvre à l'érotisme et la caricature, en signant ses sujets trop libres sous le pseudonyme de Santippa. Contributor: Gaston Hoffmann [Santippa] (French, 1883 – 1977). Ref: Honesterotica.com provides only 8 images of 18. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III: № 2581:
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NEWSoftcover 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) -
NEWHardcover, 305 x 235 mm, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, collated in 4to: 544, pp. [1-4] 5-94 [95, 96], [I, II] III-CDXXXII (432), i.e. 216 leaves; 578 watermarks catalogued. Title-page (red and black): WATERMARKS | IN PAPER | IN HOLLAND, ENGLAND, | FRANCE, ETC., IN THE XVII | AND XVIII CENTURIES AND | THEIR INTERCONNECTION | BY | W. A. CHURCHILL | {publisher’s device} | MENNO HERTZBERGER & Co. — AMSTERDAM | MCMXXXV || Contributors: Churchill, William Algernon (British, 1865 – 1947) – author. Menno Hertzberger & Co. (Amsterdam) – publisher. Hertzberger, Emanuel [Menno] (Dutch, 1897 - 1982) – publisher. -
NEWPublisher’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) -
NEWTwo 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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NEWFifteen colour aquatints including a title, a dedication, two illustrated quotes (Oscar Wilde and Baudelaire), ten plates with engraved caption and a justification with tailpiece, printed on thick wove paper watermarked BFK Rives, 320 x 225 mm, platemark 184 x 150 mm, title page signed in pencil by the author, fuchsia ink stamp “ARS EROTICA | Hans-J. Döpp” to verso or recto, remains of hinges on some sheets to recto; in a flapped grey cloth portfolio with ties, 330 x 250 mm. Limited edition (235 copies), this is one of Arches vellum print-run of 200; no number indicated. Pl. 1 (title-page): Les | seuils | empourprés | {image} | Dix | Evocations | Erotiques | Composées et Gravées | Par | Ansaad de Lytencia | Se trouve | où l'on peut et se montre | quand il le faut || Signed in pencil “A. de Lytencia” on the plate’s bottom margin. Pl. 2: À | nos Épouses | afin | qu’ au pied des autels maudits, | parmi la sanglante floraison des plaisirs | stériles, et la rosée sacrée des larmes, | elles recueillent | des mains du maître du mal, | le pouvoir de s’affirmer | nos maitresses || [To our wives, so that at the foot of the cursed altars, among the bloody flowering of sterile pleasures, and the sacred dew of tears, they may gather from the hands of the master of evil, the power to assert themselves as our mistresses]. Pl. 3: L’appellation de livre moral ou im- | moral ne répond à rien ; un livre est | bien écrit ou mal écrit, c'est tout. | (O. Wilde) [“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” O. Wilde] Les belles choses n’ont d’autre sens | que leur beauté. | (id.) [“Beautiful things mean only Beauty”; ibid.] Pl. 4: L’Initiation Pl. 5: Mysticisme Pl. 6: Insignifiances Pl. 7: Les Invertis Pl. 8:Réversibilité Pl. 9: La Dance Pl. 10: Le poisson rouge Pl. 11: La Possession Pl. 12: Sérénité Pl. 13: Finale Pl. 14. Maudit soit à jamais le rêveur inutile | Qui voulut le premier, dans sa stupidité, | S’éprenant d’un problème insoluble et stérile, | Aux choses de l’amour mêler l’honnêteté ! (Ch. Baudelaire) || Pl. 15: Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage: | Dix exemplaires hors commerce, numé- | rotés de I à X, Dix exemplaires sur Japon | Ancien, numérotés de 1 à 10, quinze exemp- | laires sur Japon Imperial, numérotés | de 11 à 25, et Deux cents exemplaires | sur Velin d’Arches numérotés de 26 à 225 | Justification de tirage: | {image} | 1927 || Catalogue raisonné: honesterotica.com; Dutel III: № 2395, p. 362; Nordmann I: № 197, p. 128. Contributor: Lambert, André [Lytencia, Ansaad de](French, 1884 – 1967) Wilde, Oscar (British, 1854 – 1900) Baudelaire, Charles (French, 1821 – 1867) -
NEWFramed pencil and watercolour drawings with 4-line manuscript pen and ink French text under the frame on paper 255 x 175 mm mounted on card stock sheets 290 x 210 mm. Illustrations correspond to the 1st edition of Pierre Louÿs’ « Pybrac / Poésies » published by Cythère Au coq hardi in 1927 [LIB-3061.2022], pp. 25, 37, 64, 69, 85, 86, and 94. Illustrations here are placed in the order they would have appeared in the book.- Je n’aime pas à voir deux sœurs l’une sur l’autre, L’une étendue, ouvrant ses deux cuisses en l’air, Et l’autre qui s’y plonge et s’y frotte et s’y vautre, Corps à corps, ventre à ventre et leurs cons chair à chair.
- Je n’aime pas à voir la douce concubine Qu’on encule toujours et qui, d’un doigt lascif Se branle le bouton, se tire la barbiche, Pour soulager son cul douloureux et passif
- Je n’aime pas à voir cette Sappho mascule Qui, dans sa chambre, habille une fille en garçon, Lui baisse la culotte et froidement l’encule Avec un godmiché plus gros qu’un saucisson.
- Je n’aime pas à voir la vierge au doigt lubrique Qui, les deux pieds en l’air, masturbe sur le lit Son pucelage en rut, gonflé, couleur de brique, Et décharge en baisant le roman qu’elle lit.
- Je n’aime pas à voir le garçon sur la fille Donner des coups au cul et danser le galop Aux applaudissements de toute la famille Qui dit : « Ça vient, putain ! Fais-la jouir, salop ! »
- Je n’aime pas à voir la princesse de Grèce, Qui, menée au bordel par sa fille d’honneur, Frotte sa bouche obscène au cul de la négresse Et crie en déchargeant : « C’est là qu’est le bonheur ! »
- Je n’aime pas à voir dans un bal de familles Que l’hôtesse dispose une chambre d’ami Et des lits de repos, au gré des jeunes filles, Pour sucer leurs danseurs ou se faire mimi.
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NEWA silver-bromide print 390 x 290 mm depicting actor and singer Maurice Chevalier in a straw hat, smiling, with his head in ¾, facing to the left, dry mounted on cardboard. Signature in white manuscript to the bottom-right corner “d’ORA | PARIS”. Sitter: Chevalier, Maurice Auguste (French, 1888 – 1972) Artist: Kallmus, Dora [Madame d’Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963) -
NEWA silver-bromide print 22 x 16 cm depicting a sitting woman, naked, in a veiled hat, with the torso in profile, turning her head ¾ towards the viewer, with a black terrier lying under her right hand. Artist’s device in the top-right corner: “d'Ora | Benda”. According to the seller, it is a portrait of Lisa Petersen, a nude dancer. Artist: Kallmus, Dora [Madame d’Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963)
