L’ecrin Secret du Bibliophile

L. Le Pileur, Pierre Louys

London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne

:

Cassell and Company

,

1961

.
Third Edition.

22cm x 13cm. 4 volumes, plates and illustrations, some colour. Wrappers, silk folder, gilt lettering, slipcase. Text is in French.

Reprints of four French erotic works, each issued loose in wrappers and housed in a folder and slipcase. The seventeenth such collection in the series, L’ecrin Secret du Bibliophile. Numbered edition of 1,500 copies, of which this is number 958.Full list of titles: 1. Les Preservatifs des Dangers de l’Amour par Le Docteur L. Le Pileur; 2. L’Origine des Cons Sauvages; 3. Mylord Arouille ou Les Bamboches; 4. Les Chansons Secretes de Bilitis. Mylord Arouille and Bilitis each with plates at the rear. L’Origine with a graphic pink frontispiece and erotic headpieces

Books are in Fine Condition. Folder and slipcase are in Good Condition, discolouration to slipcase and spine of folder, minor soiling to slipcase. Very Good Condition.