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La Femme et le Pantin
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Louys; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Le Vasseur et Cie, Editeaurs, 1945.The Woman and the Puppet. A Frenchman falls hopelessly under the spell of a beguiling Andalusian woman at the carnival in Seville, drawing him into a cruel dance of seduction, humiliation, and obsession. First published in 1898, this the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat. This copy number 110 of 400 numbered copies on Arches vellum (of a total edition of 540), though with the plates in a second state with remarques normally reserved for the 75 copies numbered 26 to 100.
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Les Memoires de Josephine suivi de Filles de Ferme et de Paroles
Read MorePierre Louys
[Paris]: [Societe de Bibliophiles Japonais], 1894 [1984].1 of 30 copies with 6 etchings by Ginko Honjo [Gilbert Houbre]. Published clandestinely in Paris with all copies subscribed by a society of Japanese bibliophiles.
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Aphrodite
Read MorePierre Louys; Paul Gervais
Paris: Association et Cercle Grolier, 1932.The first edition with illustrations by Paul Gervais of Louys’ immensely successful novel of tumultuous love and desire set in Alexandria. One of 200 copies produced for the Association et Cercle Grolier, this being number 143, one of 75 copies for corresponding members.
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Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques
Read MorePierre Louys; Edouard Chimot
Paris: Edition d’Art de L’Intermediaire du Bibliophile, 1929.The first edition with illustrations by Chimot of Louys’ immensely successful novel of tumultuous love and desire set in Alexandria. One of 154 copies of the standard edition (from the total edition of 300), this copy finely bound by Herbillon-Crombe.
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Petites Miettes Amoureuses
Read MorePierre Louys
Rheims: Presses de L’Imprimerie Particuliere du Palais du Tau, 1976.Previously unpublished erotic French poetry by Pierre Louys from the collection of M. Gerard Nordmann with a quality reproduction of an erotic photograph by Louys as a frontispiece to the first volume, Poems Libres. The second volume, Deux Contes, all manuscript facsimile. Limited to 175 numbered copies, this copy without the accompanying box of postcards.