Perversite

Paris: No Publisher, 1927.
First Thus.

25cm x 18.5cm. [viii], 194 pages, 14 plates and 2 engraved vignettes, 1 original watercolour, 1 autograph letter. Full red leather with black and green inlays, gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, slipcase, original wrappers bound in. Text is in French.

Proto-roman noir of prostitution and exploitation in the slums of Paris. The first illustrated edition of Francis Carco’s novel, originally published unillustrated in 1925. One of 149 numbered copies, this copy an exemplaire de passe, outside the stated limitation, initialled by the author on the colophon and inscribed by him to Pierre Borel on the half-title. With a one-page autograph letter signed from Carco to Borel, dated 19 May 1927, and an original signed watercolour by Dignimont, likewise inscribed to Borel, both bound in. The plates, depicting the Parisian demi-monde central to Carco’s fiction, were printed by La Roseraie. Pierre Borel (pseudonym of Frederic Louis Viborel), journalist, critic, and editor-in-chief of L’Eclaireur de Nice, was the author of studies on Maupassant, Marie Bashkirtseff, and Courbet. In a signed Art Deco binding by A. Bianchi of Nice.

Light marking to tail of upper board. Very minor bump to top edge near spine of approx. pp. 150-176, very short closed tear to fore-edge margin of page 15/16 and a small crease to tail fore-edge corner of 17/18. Tissue guards removed. Some shelf wear to slipcase. Very Good Condition.

AU$2,000.00

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