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Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Monthly magazine Star ("Звезда", Zvezda) published from 1924; circulation of 60,000 copies. Editor-in-Chief: Валерий Павлович Друзин (Russian, 1903 – 1980). Softcover, original wrappers, 25.3 x 16.8 cm, pp.: [2] 3-190 [2], total 192 pages; collated 8vo: [1]-128, total 96 leaves.
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Lavishly illustrated manuscript bound in brown cloth with a red cloth border, 12.3 x 7.5 x 1.6 cm, green marbled endpapers with the inscription “Mein | Kampf” to free leaf, front pastedown with a pocket; written with blue ink and drawn with colour crayons on checkered notepaper with rounded corners, unpaginated, 104 leaves total. Frontispiece: ☆ | AMOUR | {two cupids and a heart pierced with an arrow, sunbeams} | VOLUPTE | IVRESSE || Title-page: FOLIES | D'AMOUR | PAR | • Roger Cotteret • | {raising sun and sunbeams} | row of dots || A copy of the whole manuscript is presented here.
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Cover: To beg | I am ashamed | by | Sheila Cousins | An autobiography | of a London prostitute | Only authorized edition | Complete and unexpurgated | PUBLISHED IN PARIS || Title page: SHEILA COUSINS | TO BEG | I AM ASHAMED || Pagination:[4] 1-252], total 256 pages. Binding: Original wrappers, black lettering to front, spine, and back: Price in France and Continent 75 Frs. | Price in America Two Dollars |—| OPERA PRESS || Size: 20.2 x 14.5 cm. Edition: Pirated edition. Contributors: Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) – author. Ronald Matthews (British, 1903 – 1967) – author. Opera Press (Paris) – publisher.
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Description: Three volumes, 17 x 14 cm each, uniformly bound in quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands tooled gilt with gilt lettering and fleuron, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved (moire-waffle in light pink (vol. 1), cream (vol. 2) and blue (vol. 3), engraved), printed on wove paper, outer and bottom margin untrimmed, illustrated with etched/aquatint front wrapper, frontispiece, tail- and headpieces, and full-page plates in sepia, presumably after Zyg Brunner. Title-page (red and black): LE DIABLE | AU | CORPS | ŒUVRE POSTHUME | DU TRÈS RECOMMANDABLE DOCTEUR | CAZZONÉ | (ANDRÉA DE NERCIAT) | Membre extraordinaire de la joyeuse Faculté | phallo-coîro-pygo-glottonomique | TOME PREMIER (DEUXIÈME; TROISIÈME) | ALENÇON | 1930 || Vol. 1: front wrapper, blank leaf, h.t./limitation, t.p., [1] 2-180, 2 blank leaves, back wrapper; frontispiece, 7 full-page plates (incl. frontispiece), and 13 tail- and headpieces. Vol. 2: front wrapper, blank leaf, h.t./limitation, t.p., [1] 2-193 [194 blank], blank leaf, back wrapper; 8 full-page plates (incl. frontispiece), and 12 tail- and headpieces. Vol. 3: front wrapper, blank leaf, h.t./limitation, t.p., [1] 2-180 [181 colophon], [182 blank], blank leaf, back wrapper; frontispiece, 8 full-page plates (incl. frontispiece), and 13 tail- and headpieces. Limitation: 30 copies (№ 1-30) on Japon Impérial, 300 copies (№ 31-331) on Vélin d’Arches. This copy is № 109. Colophon: Printed on May 25, 1930, 350 copies on Vélin d’Arches with numbers from 31 to 380 [sic!] Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) № 1394, p. 129. Contributors: André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author. Zyg [Zygismund; Sigismond Leopold] Brunner (Polish, 1878 – 1961) – artist.
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Hardcover, 20.2 x 13.6 cm, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in unclipped dust jacket, pp.: [1-8] 9-334 [2]. Title-page: THE HONORARY CONSUL | GRAHAM GREENE | {4 line citation} | {publisher’s device} | THE BODLEY HEAD | LONDON SYDNEY | TORONTO || © Graham Greene 1973. Printed by: William Clowes & Sons Ltd. (Beccles). Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991).
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Softcover volume, 24.0 x 17.7 cm, publisher’s tan wrappers, lettered to front and spine in brown and black, publisher’s device and imprint to back, upper margin trimmed, all printed on laid paper, pp: [i-viii] [1-3] 4-496 [4], last page blank (total 508 pages); collated 8vo: π4 1-318 χ2 (total 254 leaves). Book-label with publisher’s device to fep (χ1 recto). Title-page and front wrapper (in brown and black): С. Ф. ЛИБРОВИЧЪ | НА КНИЖНОМЪ ПОСТУ | ВОСПОМИНАНIЯ | : : ЗАПИСКИ : : | ДОКУМЕНТЫ | {two-headed eagle} | ИЗДАНIЕ | Т-ВА М. О. ВОЛЬФЪ | ПЕТРОГРАДЪ И МОСКВА | (1916 on front wrapper) || Provenance: Publisher Contributors: Сигизмунд Феликсович Либрович [Zygmunt Librowicz] (Polish-Russian, 1855 – 1918) – author. Товарищество М. О. Вольф (Петроград-Москва) – publisher. Типография товарищества М. О. Вольф (Петроград) – printer. Маврикий Осипович Вольф [Maurycy Bolesław Wolff] (Polish-Russian, 1825 – 1883) – dedicatee.
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An album 45 of 50 prints, 31 photogravures and 14 in raster chromotype after drawings and paintings by Franz von Bayros; most with tissue guards, some in passepartout; colour prints mounted on the same paper that is used for photogravures. Title-page: BAYROS | MAPPE | MIT VORWORT VON | RUDOLF HANS BARTSCH | VERLAG ED. STRACHE / WIEN • PRAG • LEIPZIG || Limited edition of 500 copies. This is copy № 286. Lacking 5 prints: (1) Abschied vom Paradies, (2) Weihnacht, and (3) Harmonie from Symphonie von der Gūte, die Schönheit ist; (4) Divina commedia from Florentiner Phantasien; and (5) Mozart from Varia. Contributors: Franz von Bayros (Austrian, 1866 – 1924) Rudolf Hans Bartsch (Austrian, 1873 – 1952)
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Description: one volume, 20.7 x 13.3 cm, bound in cream cloth with red and black lettering to front cover and spine, author’s photographic portrait frontispiece. Title-page (black and red): ИЗБРАННОЕ (vertical, red) | И. БАБЕЛЬ | {publisher’s device “ИХЛ”} | Издательство | «ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА» | Москва | 1966 || Contents: Конармия; Одесские рассказы; Рассказы; Воспоминания; Пьесы; Статьи, выступления; Письма; Комментарии. Imprint: Вступительная статья | Л. ПОЛЯК | Комментарии | Е. КРАСНОЩЕКОВОЙ | Оформление художника | Ю. БОЯРСКОГО | 7–3–2 / 57–66 || Pagination :[2] 3-493 [494] [2]; total 496 pages, ils. Collation: 8vo; [1]-318; total 248 leaves plus author’s photographic portrait frontispiece. Contributors: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель [Isaac Babel] (Russian-Jewish, 1894 – 1940) – author. Лидия Моисеевна Поляк (Russian-Jewish, 1899 – 1992) – author, foreword. Елена Александровна Краснощекова (Russian-Jewish, b. 1934) (see Александр Михайлович Краснощёков) – author, commentary. Юлий Александрович Боярский (Russian, 1924 – 2009) – artist.
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Small paperback, 12.3 x 9 cm, pictorial turquoise wrappers, pp.: [2] 3-52 [4], ils., total 56 pp., incl. contents, colophon and last blank; collated 8vo: 1-38 44, total 28 leaves; print run 25,000 copies. Title-page (framed): С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ и Б. РЕСТ | ВОИНЫ | КРЫЛАТОЙ | БАЛТИКИ | 1941 | Государственное издательство | “Искусство” | Ленинград • Москва || Contributors: Сергей Петрович Варшавский [Sergei Varshavsky] (Russian-Jewish, 1906 – 1980) – author. Б. Рест (Юлий Исаакович Шапиро (Russian-Jewish, 1907 – 1984) – author. Лев Самойлович Самойлов (Russian, 1918 – 1988) – artist.
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Front cover: UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY | (NOT FOR SALE) | {rule} | OUR MAN IN HAVANA | Graham Greene | {rule} || Half-title: Our Man in Havana ||; stamp on top: LAURENCE POLLINGER LTD. | 18 MADDOX STREET, LONDON, W.1. Title page: {double rule} | Our Man in Havana | AN ENTERTAINMENT | GRAHAM GREENE | {Heinemann’s device} | HEINEMANN | LONDON MELBOURNE TORONTO || Title verso: William Heinemann Ltd | LONDON MELBOURNE TORONTO | CAPE TOWN AUCKLAND | THE HAGUE | First published 1958 | © by Graham Greene 1958 | All rights reserved | Printed in Great Britain | at The Windmill Press | Kingswood, Surrey || Pagination: [6] [1, 2] 3-273 [274]. Binding: 19.5 x 13 cm, cream wrappers with black lettering to front and spine; Cover is verso of the cover for Anne Piper’s Green for Love, a book published by Fletcher & Son in 1954. Edition: Advance copy / Uncorrected proof. Contributors: Henry Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) – author. William Henry Heinemann (British-Jewish, 1863 – 1920); William Heinemann Limited – publisher. Laurence Pollinger Ltd. (London) – literary agent.
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Description: Limited softcover edition in grey publisher’s wrappers 27 x 21 cm, lettered in a frame “MICHEL VOKAER | BIBLIOGRAPHIE | de | Marcel VERTÈS | PREFACE DE CLAUDE ROGER-MARX | Avec quatre dessins inédits de Vertès | — | EMILE RELECOM | BRUXELLES ||, lettered spine, pp. [1-4 h.t., t.p.] 5-34 [35, 36 blanks] [37 limitation] [38 blank] [39 colophon] [40 blank]; 40 pages total plus 4 photomechanical reproductions of Vertès’ unpublished drawings on glossy paper, extraneous to collation. Catalogue of 82 entries. Received uncut. Title-page: similar to front wrapper, plus «1967» in the bottom under BRUXELLES. Limitation: 7 copies (A-G) on Japon chamois + 2 suites of plates, 25 copies (1-25) on Hollande Van Gelder + 1 suite of plates, 450 copies (26-475) on offset Arduenna, and 40 copies not hor sale (I-XL) on different papers. The total print run is 522 copies, of which this is № 206. Ref: leslibraires.fr Contributors: Michel Vokaer (Belgian, 20th century) – author. Claude Roger-Marx (Jewish-French, 1888 – 1977) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Xavier Gustave Emile Relecom (Belgian, 1900 – 1977) – publisher.
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Softcover, original wrappers, 16 x 11 cm, collated 8vo: 48, 54, total 36 leaves, pp.: [2] 3-71 [72]. Front wrapper (lettered in black and white): {photo} | Б. РЕСТ. | КНИГИ | И | ЛЮДИ | ГОСЛИТИЗДАТ || Title-page (black and red): Б. РЕСТ | КНИГИ И ЛЮДИ | ОЧЕРКИ ИЗ ИСТОРИИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ | ПУБЛИЧНОЙ БИБЛИОТЕКИ | имени | М. Е. САЛТЫКОВА-ЩЕДРИНА | 1814 — 1939 | {vignette} | — | Государственное издательство | “ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА” | Ленинград 1939 || Print run: 7,500 copies. B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980).
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Title-page: 30 | et quelques… | attitudes. | {vignette} | LITHOGRAPHIES | ORIGINALES DE | JEAN DE L’ÉTANG || Colophon: ACHEVÉ | D’IMPRIMER | EN | M C MLII || Description: Cream French flapped wrappers enforced with cardboard, in a double slipcase, 30.2 x 24 x 4.5 cm, with a lithograph to front and back depicting the female crotch, front and back, respectively. Printed on wove paper watermarked ‘Johannot’ (produced by Arches, France). Unbound; margins untrimmed. Collation: 2 leaves on the front and 2 on the back with two within the wrappers, incl. colophon, 2 leaves: one blank and one t.p. / limitation, 12 loose gatherings of 4 leaves each (48) with glassine interleaving. Pagination: [1-8] 9-102 [2], total 104 pp (leaves in wrappers not counted). Illustrated with 25 full-page lithographs (incl. covers) and 29 smaller images. Artist’s name Jean de l’Étang is most probably a pseudonym attributed by both J.-P. Dutel and Gérard Nordmann to Jean Dulac (French, 1902 – 1968). Limitation: A print run of 200 copies, of which this is copy № 186 (Nordmann's collection had №184). Cat. raisonné: Dutel III №2511, p. 388; Nordmann II №181, p. 89; Honesterotica.
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Title page: BOOKLEGGERS | AND | SMUTHOUNDS | THE TRADE IN EROTICA, 1920-1940 | JAY A. GERTZMAN | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS • PHILADELPHIA || Pagination: [8] [1] 2-418 [6] blanks, total 216 leaves. Binding: 24.5 x 16 cm; black cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket.
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Description: one volume 25.5 x 22 cm, quarter calf with raised bands and gilt lettering over gilt-decorated boards, text within decorated borders printed on wove paper, with 8 mounted colour plates, 16 x 14 cm, photomechanical reproductions after Franz von Bayros, with lettered tissue guards, t.e.g. Title-page (in decorated border): INPANDEANVALE | PICTURED {} IN COLOUR | BY THE MAR {} QUIS F.BAYROS {vignette} | AMALTHEA PUBLISHING OFFICEZURICH || Pagination: [2 blank] [1-6] 7-156 [2 blank], total 80 leaves, incl. 8 colour plates with lettered tissue guards. Limitation: Copyright by Amalthea Publishing Office, Vienna. Printed by Adolf Holzhauzen in Vienna. Bound by Karl Scheibe, Vienna. Edition A: №№ I-V, full leather signed by von Bayros; Edition B: №№ 1-495 in half-leather. This copy is № 130, signed by the author. Contributors: Geoffrey Sephton – author, nothing is known. Franz von Bayros (Austrian, 1866 – 1924) – artist. Adolf Holzhausen the Younger (Austrian, 1868 – 1931) – printer. Karl Scheibe (Austrian) – bookbinder.
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Description: Hardcover, 18.8 x 13 cm, pictorial front cover (after Franz von Bayros) in colour over tan cloth, lettering to spine, all margins red, laid paper endpapers, pp.: [4] 1-185 [3]; collated 8vo as π2 1-118, 126, total 192 pages (96 leaves) plus 5 b/w photogravures after drawings by Franz von Bayros. Title-page (blackletter): Gustav Hochstetter | Das Füsschen der gnädigen Frau | und Anderes | {publisher’s device} | {blank} | 1912 | München und Leipzig bei Georg Müller || T.p. verso (blackletter): Umschlagzeichnung und fünf Bildbeigeben von | Franz von Bayros | {blank} | (serif) Copyright 1912 by Georg Müller in München || Colophon: Druck von Mänicke u. Jahn, Rudolstadt. Contributors: Gustav Hochstetter (German-Jewish, 1873 – 1944) – author. Franz von Bayros (Austrian, 1866 – 1924) – artist. Mänicke und Jahn (Rudolstadt) – printer. Georg Müller (München, Leipzig) – publisher.
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Hardcover volume, 22.5 x 19.5 cm, collated 4to, owner’s terracotta cloth with gilt-lettered black label to spine, publisher’s wrappers preserved, pp.:3 ffl, front wrapper, 3 ffl, [2] h.t./limit, [2] t.p./blank, 1-228 [2] 3 ffl, back wrapper, 3 ffl. Collation: π3 1-314 323. (130 leaves, incl. plates). Title-page (pink and black): Bonne-fille | PAR | JEAN VIOLLIS | Illustrations de | DIGNIMONT | {vignette} | A PARIS | La Collection Originale | ÉDITIONS MORNAY | 37, BOULEVARD DU MONTPARNASSE | MCMXXVI || Illustrations: 14 full-page colour plates, incl. frontispiece and endpiece, within collation but not within pagination, verso blank, and numerous head- and tailpieces and in-text stencil-coloured (au pochoir) lithography after André Dignimont. Limitation: A print run of 628 copies for sale, of which 18 on Japon Ancien, 30 on Japon Impérial, 90 on Hollande, 490 on Rives (139-628), plus 50 copies not for sale. Printed on May 12, 1926, at l’Imprimerie Kapp (Vanves), this copy is № 380. Provenance: Feodor Rojankovsky, pictorial bookplate “ИЗ КНИГ РОЖАНКОВСКАГО” to front pastedown, ms inscription to front ffl2 top “TH. ROJANKOWSKY | 14 VIII 30” in block letters. One of the possible transliterations of Feodor Rojankovsky's name is Theodor Rojankowsky. Contributors: Jean-Henri d'Ardenne deTizac [JeanViollis] (French, 1877 – 1932) – author. André Dignimont (French, 1891 – 1965) – artist. Frédéric Emile Kapp (French, 1851-193?) – printer. Georges Mornay (French, 1876 – 1935) et Antoinette Mornay – pubishers. Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – provenance.
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Description: French flapped wrappers, 27 x 20.5 cm, 134 gatherings, plus two leaves (blank, h.t. / limitation) at the beginning (54 leaves total), the first and the last two leaves blank, two pages in each of 12 gatherings (24 total) are hand-painted photogravures after etchings by an anonymous artist, attributed to Santippa, pseudonym of Georges or Gaston Hoffmann, or, possibly, of André Collot; the gatherings are unbound, pp. [1-10] 11-99 [100] [8] (108 pages total). Title-page: ÉPICES | REFLEXIONS | sur quelques à-côtés de l'amour | destinées à des personnes | expérimentées | ILLUSTREES | DE | VINGT-QUATRE PLANCHES | HORS-TEXTE | COLORIÉES A LA MAIN | {vignette} | ÉDITÉ | POUR UN GROUPE DE BIBLIOPHILES || Edition: limited to 500 copies numbered from 1 to 480 + 20 hand-numbered with Roman numbers. This is copy № 273. Enrichment: one original sketch (for Coucou… ou l’erreur de porte), one etching before letters and the same after letters and coloured (Le petit coin tranquille.. 19/20), and a full suite of 24 original etchings in sepia on cream paper, 20 of them on Arches and 4 on BFK Rives) printed for the first 17 copies of the 1950 edition (55 copies were printed then). In addition: one graphite pencil sketch which is not part of the suite. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 1920 – 1970: № 1490 (for 1950), № 1491 (for 1955).