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Julie, ou J’ai Sauve ma Rose. Par Madame de C***.
[Felicite de Choiseul-Meuse?]; [Madame Guyot?]
A Hambourg, et se Trouve a Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveautes, 1807.Possibly the first sapphic novel written by a woman, over a century before Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. The vivid depiction of lesbian love lends to the warning on the title page, “La mere en defendra la lecture a sa fille” [The mother will forbid her daughter to read it], and led to the novel’s censure in 1825 and on the ruling of obscenity and its order of destruction in 1827. First published in 1807, this is a well survived example of the second edition, differing from the first with the French spelling modernized, published in 1820 or 1821 but with the same 1807 imprint of the first edition. Sometimes attributed to Felicite de Choiseul-Meuse, and also to Madame Guyot, both have been refuted. PERCEAU 6-2, PIA pp. 662-3, GAY Vol. IV pp. 196.
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Les Mains Cheries
Jacques d’Icy; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.1930s flagellation tales authored by the renowned illustrator of spanking, Louis Malteste, under his Jacques d’Icy pseudonym.
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L’Ecrin du Rubis ou Les Delices des Dessous
Liane Delorys; Herric [Cheri Herouard]
Paris: Au Cabinet du Livre, 1939.Rare French lesbian erotica. The second edition, illustrated by Cheri Herourard. First published in 1932 in a very limited edition illustrated by P. Silex.
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Baby Douce Fille
Sadie Blackeyes [Pierre Mac Orlan]; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.Pierre Mac Orlan under his Sadie Blackeyes pseudonym for pornographic novels of sado-masochism and flagellation. A novel followed by some letters concerning the flagellation of women and girls. The Collection des Orties Blanches illustrated wrappers edition with 10 spanking illustration plates by Louis Malteste laid in.
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Quinze Ans
Sadie Blackeyes [Pierre Mac Orlan]; Louis Malteste
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, No date.3 works by Pierre Mac Orlan under his Sadie Blackeyes pseudonym for pornographic novels of sado-masochism and flagellation. A novel about family discipline, followed by some letters about corporal punishment in the education of young girls, and Sonia, the Beautiful Student, with 10 soft spanking illustrations by Louis Malteste.
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Cydalise ou Le Peche Dans le Miroir
[Johannes Gros]; T. Mertens
[Dijon]: [Darantiere], No date.Cydalise, or Sin in the Mirror. With 8 etchings by T. Mertens, several depicting lesbianism, group sex, and one of spanking, all well executed. A high point of early 1930s French erotica. One of 600 numbered standard copies of the total edition of 700. The 100 deluxe copies with the etchings coloured. DUTEL 1331.
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Theorie de L’Amour et de la Jalousie
P. J. Stahl [Pierre-Jules Hetzel]
Bruxelles: J. B. Tarride, 1853.Moral philosophical study of love, passion, and jealousy by the Jules Verne publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel published under his P. J. Stahl pseudonym. This copy bound in a fine half leather binding signed De Watines.
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Eve Ressuscitee ou La Belle Sans Chemise
Anonymous
San Remo: J. Gay et Fils, Editeurs, 1873.[Eve Resurrected or The Beautiful One Without a Shirt]. 19th century reissue of this anonymous libertine novel with a new preface and a photographic frontispiece of one of the engravings by Bovinet. One of 200 numbered copies, this copy finely bound in half leather with the original wrappers.
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Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu
Marquis 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
[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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La Perverse Dominatrice
Greta Knout [Pierre Goetz]
: [Pierre Delalu], No date.The Perverse Dominatrix. 1960s clandestine novel by Pierre Goetz illustrated with 30 mounted photographs depicting a lesbian threesome with light and playful BDSM. DUTEL 2171 (noting only 28 photographs). Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (2 Volumes)
Jacques 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
Gustave 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
Anatole 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
Ovide; 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
Honore 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
Raymond 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
Jacques 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
Rene 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
Edmond 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.