RÉAGE (Pauline). History of O. Sceaux: Jean-Jacques... - Lot 164 - Ader

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RÉAGE (Pauline). History of O. Sceaux: Jean-Jacques... - Lot 164 - Ader
RÉAGE (Pauline). History of O. Sceaux: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954. - In-8, 181 x 116: (4 ff. first two blanks), XX pp., (1 ff.), 245 pp., (2 ff.), printed cover. Maroquin in burgundy, flat decorated with blue, purple, green, grey and pink box pieces of different shapes, applied, forming an oblique O underlined at the edge and in the centre with golden pastilles of different sizes, smooth back with the name of the author and the title in golden letters, frame of burgundy morocco inside, decorated with a golden net, lining and endpapers of green velvet bordered by a grey morocco scroll, untrimmed, cover and back preserved, back box case and overlapping band and slices of burgundy morocco (Devauchelle). Original edition of 600 copies of this masterpiece of erotic literature, published by the young Jean-Jacques Pauvert, then aged 27. It is the most widely read French book abroad after Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince . Pauline Réage was the pseudonym of the woman of letters Dominique Aury, born Anne Cécile Desclos (1907-1998), who only revealed herself as the author of this novel during an interview with the journalist John de Saint-Jorre for the New Yorker in 1994, 40 years after its publication. Creator of women's libertine literature, she was notably the mistress of Jean Paulhan, who wrote the preface to the book, entitled Du bonheur dans l'esclavage ( Happiness in Slavery). One of 480 numbered copies on laid paper (No. 350). It is well decorated with the title vignette drawn and engraved with etching by Hans BELLMER, drawn in sanguine. Only 200 copies would have this sticker, so they are the most sought-after . Superb copy in original Devauchelle binding, perfectly preserved, one of the rarest conditions for this book.
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