Les Chansons de Bilitis

Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1926.
Reprint.

18cm x 12cm. [iv], xii, 356 pages, black and white illustrations. Three quarter red leather, decorative papered boards, gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Text is in French.

Erotic prose poems, presented as translations of Bilitis, a fictive Greek courtesan and contemporary of Sappho, whose name was later taken up by the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organisation in the United States. This edition illustrated by Notor with 300 illustrations after classical sources in European museums.

Very minor shelf wear and tanning. Near Fine Condition.

AU$60