CURIOSA. - Set of 12 paperback volumes. - Lot 169

CURIOSA. - Set of 12 paperback volumes. CARCO (Francis Carcopino, known as Francis). Tableau de l'amour vénal. Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française (collection "Tableaux contemporains, n° 4), 1924. In-4, paperback. First edition printed in 335 numbered and lettered copies, this one of 315 on vellum pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. Full-page lithographs in the text by Luc-Albert MOREAU. - DRESA (André Saglio, known as Jacques). Princesses imaginaires. Paris, Société littéraire de France, 1919. In-4, leaves in publisher's folder and portfolio; portfolio ties missing. First edition of 100 numbered copies on Rives vellum. Suite of color compositions in printed serpents. - EDELMANN (Charles-Auguste). Suite of 16 etchings, engraved to illustrate the edition of Octave Mirbeau's Journal d'une femme de chambre published by Éditions Mornay in Paris in 1932. In-8, leaves, in cardboard folder and slipcase. - GALTIER-BOISSIERE (Jean). La Bonne vie. Paris, Henri Jonquières et Cie, 1928. In-4, paperback. One of the numbered copies on Montgolfier vellum. Color illustrations in and out of text by André DIGNIMONT. - GROS (Johannès)]. Colette ou les Amusements de bon ton. À Saint-Cloud, au temple de Cythère [Paris, Maurice Duflou, ca. 1938]. In-8, paperback; cover a little worn, angular stains on a few leaves. Second edition, 300 numbered copies on vélin pur fil du Marais, published under the pseudonym "Spaddy" like the 1936 original. Color plates by Paul-Émile BECAT. - LARBAUD (Valéry). Fermina Marquez. Paris, Éditions Émile-Paul frères, 1925. In-4, paperback. Edition of 364 copies, this one of 300 on vergé de Rives. Illustrated by CHAS-LABORDE, with color-enhanced stencil etchings outside the text and a woodcut on the cover. - LOUŸS (Pierre Louis, dit Pierre)]. Poésies érotiques. Barcelone, l'an I de la République catalane [Paris, René Bonnel, 1932]. Large in-4, leaves in publisher's cover, folder and cardboard slipcase. Edition of 170 numbered copies, this one of 150 on Hollande Van Gelder vellum. First edition of lithographs by Marcel VERTES, many of them full-page. - LOUŸS (Pierre Louis, dit Pierre). Poésies érotiques. Rome, s.n., 1937. In-8, leaves in publisher's hardback cover, folder and slipcase; marginal wetness on cover. Edition of 311 copies, this one of 230 on B.F.K. de Rives vellum. Numerous compositions in bistre in the text by Fédor Rojankovsky dit ROJAN. Enriched with an original color drawing by another artist (Indian ink and watercolor highlights). - PIRON (Alexis). Ode à Priape. Paris, [Maurice Duflou], 1927. In-8, leaves in publisher's soft cardboard cover, chemise and slipcase; without pink paper-filled cover, 2 sections missing from chemise and bottom of slipcase. Edition of 350 numbered copies, this one of 325 on B.F.K. de Rives vellum. First edition of etchings in the text, several full-page, engraved by André COLLOT. - PREVOST (Antoine-François). Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier Des Grieux. Paris, [Rombaldi] (collection "La Méridienne", no. 1), 1934. In-8, paperback. Color illustrations in and out of text by Charles MARTIN. - VERLAINE (Paul). Œuvres libres. Bruxelles, printed by a group of bibliophiles, 1948. In-4, leaves, uncut, in publisher's hardback cover, folder and slipcase. Edition printed on Johannot vellum, one of 400 numbered single copies. Off-text color plates and in-text black compositions by Paul-Émile BECAT. - VOULONGES (de). L'Éducateur. Paris, at the expense of a group of bibliophiles, 1948. In-4, leaves in publisher's hardback cover, folder and slipcase. Original edition printed in an edition of 375 copies, one of the top 25 on Rives with original copper and suite. Burins heightened with stencil colors in the text, including several full-page ones.