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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarquis de Sade
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1950.First Edition with the preface by Georges Bataille. One of the first issue of 940 numbered copies with the pink frontispiece by Hans Bellmer.
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Les Confessions d’un Travesti
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Eric Losfeld]
Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1956.Les Grandes Etues Francaises de Psychiatrie No. 1, an aggrandizing imprint and seemingly a once-off published by Eric Losfeld’s Le Terrain Vague imprint. Autobiographical psycho-social confessions of a 43 year old married heterosexual male cross-dresser and female underwear fetishist. Illustrated with 5 photographic plates of the author in various states of undress.
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Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Paris: Privately Printed [Charles Carrington], 1903.English translation published by Carrington of, Souvenirs d’une Cocodette, first published in full clandestinely by Jules Gay in Brussels. Edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered on thin wove paper in plain brown wrappers, as suggested by Mendes in Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930, Carrington likely ran additional copies beyond the 200 on this thinner paper. MENDES 154(b)(iii).
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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (2 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Casanova; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1955.Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGustave Flaubert; Brunelleschi
Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1953.Flaubert’s Madame Bovary with illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Les Sept Femmes de La Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnatole France; G. A. Mossa
Paris: Librairie Des Amaterus, A. Ferroud. – F. Ferroud, 1921.Bluebeard’s Seven Wives and Other Wonderful Tales. France’s reinterpretation of the French folktale of Bluebeard. First published in 1909, this is the first edition with illustrations by Gustav-Adolf Mossa. One of 70 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states (from a total edition of 1,200). This copy from the collection of Australian actor and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate, in a fine signed binding by Flammarion bookbinder Jean Vaillant.
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Ars Amandi. L’Art D’Aimer
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOvide; Pierre Lievre; Andre Lambert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Art of Love by Ovid, a new translation into French by Pierre Lievre and with illustrations by Andre Lambert. One of 404 numbered copies on Arches vellum (from a total edition of 500), this copy for Maurice de Smet de Naeyer, bound in half leather signed Weckesser.
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La Fille aux Yeux d’Or
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHonore de Balzac; Almery Lobel-Riche
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.The Girl with the Golden Eyes. An aristocratic libertine becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman and sets about seducing her. Alas, his conquest uncovers a hidden lesbian relationship and he finds himself entangled in web of erotic obsession and fatal jealousy. First published in 1835, this is the first edition with illustrations by Almery Lobel-Riche. One of 40 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states and an original drawing by Lobel-Riche (from a total edition of 500). This copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet.
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Le Diable au Corps
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond Radiguet; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: Editions Georges Gullot, 1957.The Devil in the Flesh. The story of a young married woman’s affair with a teenage boy while her husband is away fighting in WWI. First published in 1923, this is the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat, and with an introduction by Jean Cocteau. The superlative issue, one of 16 numbered copies on Japanese paper with an original signed drawing in pencil and white gouache, with the composition then hand coloured and signed by Becat, the 16 illustrations by Becat hand coloured by Jean and Paulette Monnier, followed by a suite containing the illustrations in black in two states, on Japanese paper and Rives vellum.
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Le Diable Amoureux
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Cazotte; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: La Tradition, 1936.The Devil in Love. Occult romance first published in 1772. This the first edition with erotic illustrations by Becat. One of 450 numbered copies on Arches vellum (of a total edition of 500).
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Le Parfum des Iles Borromees
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRene Boylesve; Paul-Emile Becat
Paris: L’Editions D’Art H. Piazza, 1933.French novel of passionate vacationers on the shores of Lake Maggiore. The first edition with 26 illustrations by Becat. Edition of 450 copies, this copy on vellum numbered IV (outside of the justification) with a printed subscriber’s name scratched out.
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La Fille Elisa
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Paul-Louis Guilbert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, George Briffaut, 1929.Goncourt’s prostitute-prisoner novel, here published for the first time with original drypoints by Paul-Louis Guilbert, a preface by J. -H. Rosny Aine, and an afterword by Jean Ajalbert. Edition of 425 numbered copies, this copy on Arches vellum, unnumbered but inscribed by the publisher, likely to the Belgian publisher Albert Parmentier of Les Editions du Nord.
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Les Ames du Purgatoire
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartProsper Merimee; Lucien Guezennec
Paris: Pierre Larrive, 1947.The Souls of Purgatory, short story retelling of the myth of Don Juan, the first edition with 10 engravings by Lucien Guezennec and woodcut ornaments by Dan Sigros. One of a numbered edition of 500 copies on Lafuma (of a total edition of 611).
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La Mort de Philae
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Loti; Geo Colucci
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1924.The Death of Philae (English title: Egypt), a tale set around the submerging of the island of Philae with the construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the river Nile. The first edition with illustrations by Geo Colucci. One of 460 numbered copies on vellum (of a total edition of 500), in a fine half leather binding signed Ch. De Samblax with the original wrappers bound in.
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Les Civilises
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere; Henri Le Riche
Paris: Librairie de la Collection des Dix, 1926.French colonizers indulge in fornication, opium, and general debauchery in late 19th century Saigon (then French Cochincina, modern day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). One of 200 numbered copies of Arches vellum (of a total edition of 300), bound with the original wrappers.
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Les Ames du Purgatoire
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartProsper Merimee; Hermann Paul
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1929.The Souls of Purgatory, short story retelling of the myth of Don Juan, the first edition with fifteen watercolours by Hermann Paul. One of a numbered edition of 450 copies on wove paper (of a total edition of 480), this copy bound by French bookbinder Rene Kieffer (1875-1964) in a fine full leather binding with an elaborate star, heart, and chain blind design to both boards, with his ticket to the endpaper, the original wrappers bound in.
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Fumee D’Opium
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere
Paris: Libraire Olendorff, 1921.The first deluxe edition of Farrere’s Black Opium, semi-autobiographical tales of the history and use of opium. Preface by Pierre Louys. With 6 plates and numerous wood engravings by Georges Jauneau, engraved by G. Lemoine. One of 250 numbered copies on Arches Vellum (of a total edition of 322).
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Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. De La Fontaine
Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve, 1791.The Loves of Psyche and Cupid by Jean De La Fontaine with colour illustrations based on paintings by M. Schall. One of the most striking editions of Fontaine’s adaptation of the story of Cupid and Psyche with coloured stipple engravings by Bonnefoy, Mme Demonchy, and Colibert after Jean-Frederic Schall. This copy with the advertisement leaf (often lacking) announcing the publication of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with an additional portrait engraving frontispiece by Edelinck after H. Rigault, and an original drawing dedication “quatre amis dont la connaissance avait commence par le Parnasse” [four friends whose acquaintance had begun at Parnassus]: La Fontaine, Racine, Moliere, and Boileau, in pen and Indian ink enhanced with gold and colouring on vellum signed L. Benard 1893, bound in a fine signed binding by the Paris bookbinder Salvador David (1859-1929).
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Oeuvres Completes de Charles Baudelaire
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire
Paris: Louis Conard, 1923-1953.Complete set of the Complete Works of Charles Baudelaire in French published by Louis Conard between 1923 and 1953, edited and with notes by Jacques Crepet. Les Fluers du Mal with portrait frontispiece.
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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860.First edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship with creative expression, being accounts from within the walls of Le Club des Haschischins and a translation and adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. CARTERET I:126. This copy rebound in a fine half leather binding without the wrappers.