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The Magazine of Further Studies (Complete Set) together with Britannia and The Western Gate
AU$650 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Clarke; Albert Glover; George Butterick; Fred Wah; Daniel Zimmerman
Buffalo: Institute of Further Studies, 1965-1970.Poetry journal published at the University at Buffalo during the mid to late 1960s by a group of poets and scholars associated with Charles Olson and the literary community that developed after his arrival at SUNY Buffalo following the closure of Black Mountain College. Contributions from the editors alongside Olson, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Sanders, Duncan McNaughton, Ruth Fox, Stephen Rodefer, Harvey Brown, David Tirrell, and others. This complete set in 6 issues offered together with two further publications, Britannia and The Western Gate, both edited in Buffalo by Daniel Zimmerman in 1970, with continued output from many of the same contributors. No. 1 with a two leaf typescript, Up Rising, by Robert Duncan laid in.
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Residu (Complete Set, 2 Volumes)
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Richter
Athens, London, and Provincetown: Residu/ Richter, 1965-66.Complete set, in two issues only. Avant-garde literary journal featuring contribution by Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Philip Lamantia, William Burroughs, Gerogry Corso, Simon Vinkenoog, Jack Nuttall, Alexander Trochi, and others. Includes several pieces on LSD, hash, and other psychedelics.
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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les ceremonies de la Sainte messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrancesde N.re I. C. le tout enrichi de belles figures
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Collin; Francoise Mazot
Paris: Chez F. Mazot, 1651-52.First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work, with both text and illustrations engraved on copper rather than set in type. The engraved title, depicting Christ in the Garden of Olives, is signed by Jean Collin (1623-1701), the Reims engraver. 35 illustrated openings follow, each pairing a stage of the Mass with a corresponding episode from the Passion of Christ, the Mass scenes possibly deriving from earlier Continental devotional models while the ornamental borders are Collin’s own work, followed by four further single-page plates numbered 36 to 39. The volume continues with litanies, including engraved busts of Jesus Admirabilis and Mater Amabilis, the Litaniae de nomine Iesu signed by the engraver I. Durant, followed by the seven Penitential Psalms in historiated borders, additional prayers, and the engraved privilege dated 9 June 1651 and the imprint dated 20 September 1652. This collation identifies the book as the first issue of the first edition, preceding the later impressions bearing a 1653 privilege and the revised 1653 edition. Jeanne Duportal identified the work as one of three publications whose engravings best exemplify the character of French religious illustration in the mid-seventeenth century. The contemporary pointille gilt binding, decorated with fine dotted and curved tools and retaining its metal clasps, is entirely characteristic of luxury Parisian devotional bindings of the period.
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Omphale: Histoire Rococo
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1896.First published within ‘Une larme du diable’ in 1839, and here published separately for the first time with illustrations by Ad. Lalauze. Drawing on the myth of Omphale, the Lydian queen to whom Hercules was sold into servitude, Gautier evokes the gender role-reversal in which the hero spins wool in women’s clothing while Omphale dons his lion skin and wields his club. One of 50 numbered copies on Japon with a second state of the illustrations with remarques (from a total edition of 300), in a fine half leather binding, signed E. Carayon, retaining the original wrappers and with the prospectus bound in.
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Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJules Gay
Turin: J. Gay et Fils, 1869.Anthology of rare and curious French texts from earlier centuries, largely comprising satirical and facetious verse, dialogues, chansons, and other literary pieces on love, women, marriage, and sexuality. Published by Jules Gay and his son Jean at Turin in 1869 for the bibliophile market cultivated through Gay’s work as a publisher and bibliographer of erotic and prohibited literature, it remains a useful sourcebook of French literary curiosa. One of 100 numbered copies on papier verge dit Hollande (from a total edition of 175), with three plates printed on chine, being portaits of Marguerite de Navarre, Francois Villon, and Clement Marot.
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Un Coeur Simple
Read MoreGustave Flaubert
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1894.23 illustrations by Emile Adan engraved by Champollion. The unique binding with silver plates, signed Moens. One of 250 numbered copies on d’Arches (from a total edition of 500).
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La Chatte
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartColette
Paris: Artheme Fayard, 1945.The story of a love triangle involving two humans and a cat. Colour lithographs by Jean A. Mercier. One of 650 numbered copies on velin d’Arches (from a total edition 998) in a charming cat themed binding.
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Histoire du Portefaix avec Les Jeunes Filles: Conte Des Mille et Une Nuits
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartDr J. -C. Mardrus
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1920.Illustrated by Joe Hamman. One of 500 numbered copies on velin de cuve (of a total edition of 550), this copy bound in Kieffer’s stunning relief design of female nudes and monkeys with his ticket to the verso of the front free endpaper
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Thais
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAnatole France; Raphael Freida
Paris: A. Plicque & Cie, 1924.One of 700 numbered copies on velin de Rives (from a total edition of 781), in a unique fine binding, signed E. Berthet. The upper board with a large painted and incised panel after one of Freida’s plates, the lower board with a smaller panel after a tailpiece, and the central spine compartment with an additional design by the binder. First published in 1890, after serialisation in the Revue des Deux Mondes (1889), Thais is among France’s best-known contes philosophiques: the story of the Alexandrian courtesan Thais and her conversion by the ascetic monk Paphnuce, whose own spiritual certainty disintegrates in the process. Issued in the year of France’s death, this edition is the most desirable of the few books illustrated by Raphael Freida (1877-1942), a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens. His illustrations emphasise the work’s underlying eroticism, sharpening the tension between ascetic renunciation and sensual desire that defines the narrative.
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Le Roman de la Momie
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTheophile Gautier; Alex. Lunois
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1901.The principal deluxe illustrated edition of Gautier’s 1858 Egyptological romance, centred on the discovery of the mummy of Tahoser and the narrative of her love for a young Hebrew. Illustrated by Alexandre Lunois (1863-1916), who travelled extensively in Egypt and based his compositions on direct observation of ancient architecture, ornament, and costume. One of 50 copies on Japon, issued with a supplementary suite of the illustrations, bound with the original wrappers and prospectus, in a signed, richly tooled Egyptian style binding by Chambolle-Duru.
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Insolation
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartLes Freres Siamois; [Joseph Hemard]
: n.p., [c. 1935].A collection of fourteen ribald verses with like illustrations by Hemard; including 1 hand-painted plate depicting a grotesque erotic orgy. DUTEL 1756.
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Contes et Nouvelles de La Fontaine (2 Volumes)
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJean de La Fontaine; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1937-38.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies. This copy rebound in quarter vellum with hand-painted decorations to the spines replicating the original wrappers, which are bound in.
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Les Fleurs du Mal
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartTatsuhiko Yokoo
Tokyo: [Yoshihara], 1975.Ten etchings by the Japanese painter Tatsuhiko Yokoo (1928-2015), each responding to a different poem from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. One of 15 numbered copies on Fukui paper reserved for the artist and collaborators (from a total edition of 50). Each plate signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Accompanied by a title leaf with a list of plates in French and Japanese, an artist’s preface with an excerpt from the corresponding poem for each plate on its verso, and a printed plate with a portrait and Japanese text after Baudelaire’s ‘Spleen’. A colophon leaf with the limitation statement in French and Japanese is mounted to the verso of the box lid.
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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium & Haschisch
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire; Henry Chapront
Paris: Societe des Medecins Bibliophiles, 1921 [1923].An illustrated bibliophile edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship to creative expression, comprising his essay on hashish and, in the second part, his adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Illustrated throughout by Henry Chapront with colour plates and text illustrations. One of 150 numbered copies printed for members, this being one of 100 subscriber copies on laid linen-and-hemp paper, additionally issued with a suite of 21 colour proofs on Chine paper, including the facsimile portrait of Baudelaire.
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Le Livre Blanc
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Cocteau
Paris: Editions du Signe, 1930.One of the foundational texts of modern gay literature. The text was first published anonymously in 1928, without illustration, in an edition of just thirty-one copies. This 1930 edition, the first illustrated and first commercially distributed edition, added eighteen drawings by Cocteau, hand-coloured by M. B. Armington, together with a facsimile of an autograph note in which Cocteau alludes to, without explicitly acknowledging, authorship. Edition limited to 450 copies. This copy on Arches paper, lacking the justification leaf.
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Escales
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartAndre Lhote; Jean Cocteau
Paris: Editions de La Sirene, 1920.Homage to the brothels of Marseille’s Vieux Port district. One of 400 numbered copies on Lafuma (from a total edition of 440). PIA 417.
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Aucassin and Nicolete
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael West; Main R. Bocher; Horace Mansion; Evelyn Paul
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1917.Copy no. 1 of 125 numbered copies, signed by Evelyn Paul. An elaborate medieval-revival illumination of the anonymous chantefable, translated from the Old French by Michael West, with music by Horace Mansion. Evelyn Paul’s decorations draw on Pre-Raphaelite, Gothic Revival, and Arts and Crafts models, combining ornamental borders, initials, and binding into one of the more distinctive British gift-book productions of the period. The colour plates are by American illustrator Main Rousseau Bocher (1890-1976), then active between New York and Paris, shortly before the launch of the couture career for which he would become internationally known. After working as a fashion illustrator for Harper’s Bazaar and later as editor of French Vogue, he established the Paris house of Mainbocher in 1929, becoming the first American to achieve lasting success as a Paris couturier.
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Death and the Lover
Read MoreHermann Hesse
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1932.First edition in English, translated from the German, Narziss Und Goldmund by Geoffrey Dunlop, and later published as Narcissus and Goldmund.
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Kontrol
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Snell
London: Ernest Benn, 1928.Inter-war sci-fi thriller. “..an exuberant Scientific Romance with thriller elements, in which a Mad Scientist switches genius brains into athletes’ bodies, then wipes their minds clean, in order to create a race of obedient Supermen; he is under the control of a Soviet master operator, whose network operates a fleet of futuristic vertical-take-off aerial juggernauts and a Dystopian supercity on a secret Island. All ends in flames.” (SFE)
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Acid Temple Ball
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Sativa
London: The Olympia Press, 1971.The first UK printing of this psychedelic erotica classic, following two printings in New York. “Mary Sativa tells the rather simple, but very beautiful story of a young art student’s life and loves in New York City and San Francisco. Her experiences are passionate, searching and tender, as she moves from east to west coat looking to learn a little more about the bemusing experience of living.” (while taking lots of drugs and having lots of sex). Cover photo by Don Snyder.