[ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of Pierre DUMARCHEY, known as MAC ORLAN - Lot 29

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[ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of Pierre DUMARCHEY, known as MAC ORLAN - Lot 29
[ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of Pierre DUMARCHEY, known as MAC ORLAN] P. de BOURDEL and [Louis MALTESTE] IGNOTUS. Aventures amoureuses de Mlle de Sommerange, ou les aventures libertines d'une demoiselle de qualité sous la terreur, Sweetgra's Québec [circa 1909]. Large folio volume, 46 x 31 cm, consisting of 84 leaves on japanese paper, including 82 manuscripts by Pierre Mac Orlan and 8 original drawings by Louis Malteste. Very surprising four-handed production of this large manuscript in-folio, including both the text in the hand of Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970), and the original drawings by Louis Malteste (1862-1928), the same ones used to illustrate the original edition. In order to carry out such a work, the future author of Quai des brumes had to feed on the lean and rabid cows, so frequent at that time on the Butte Montmartre, meticulously writing, in a beautiful and legible calligraphy, the entire text in the format of the drawings that his friend Malteste had made for Jean Fort, one of the most important booksellers-publishers of clandestine works in the Belle Époque. The publication is described as follows by Dutel (67): P. du Bourdel / - / AVENTURES AMOUREUSES [in red] / DE / Mlle DE SOMMERANGE [in red] / Ou les aventures libertines d'une demoiselle de qualité / sous la Terreur / [fleuron representing a bust of a woman, For. 26] / Sweetgra's / Québec /1910. In-8 (18.9 x 12) (justif. 10.2 x 7.2) of 4 + 149 pp., (page 150 bl.), (pp.151, 152, 153, table), cover printed in red and black on Japanese-style or brown paper. Original edition published in Paris in 1910 by J. Fort. It is printed on a verged paper with vertical pontoons and is sometimes illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 off-text heliogravures by Louis Malteste. This edition probably came out of the presses of the Imprimerie Orléanaise. P. du Bourdel is the pseudonym of Pierre Dumarchey, alias Mac Orlan. The heroine is a young girl of quality whom the events of 1789 forced to flee and hide. But she and
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