Pierre du BOURDEL [Pierre MAC ORLAN]. Mademoiselle de Mustel - Lot 343

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Pierre du BOURDEL [Pierre MAC ORLAN]. Mademoiselle de Mustel - Lot 343
Pierre du BOURDEL [Pierre MAC ORLAN]. Mademoiselle de Mustelle and her friends. Perverse novel of an elegant and vicious girl, decorated with a copper engraved by Ferdine Zombi. Saint-Domingue, at the poetry shop [René Bonnel], 1928. In-8 ecu, paperback, pink glossy cover, publisher's faded slipcase. First edition. Frontispiece engraved with etching and coloured with a doll or with a marker by Gaston-Louis Roux (1904-1988). Limited edition of 128 copies. One of 120 numbered on Arches vellum. This obscene parody of Comtesse de Segur's Petites filles modèles is presented under the innocent cover of the Pink Library, under the sign of Librairie Hachette. Hachette tried in vain to have the book seized: it was a lost cause, as the limited edition was sold out as soon as it was released. The "precious autograph manuscript", sold by Simonson (Simonson 89/5, no. 281 [70000 fb]) is written by René Bonnel, who details the history of the proceedings. Simonson specifies that the colour frontispiece is made by tracing and not by dolls. The Hachette-style layout was designed by Pascal Pia and the book was produced by Gaston Coquette, a printer who worked at 69, rue de la Glacière in the 13th arrondissement. He was still working for Jean-Jacques Pauvert at the end of the 1940s and had published a declared edition of Mérimée's Lettres libres to Stendhal in 1927, in collaboration with Pia, a work also illustrated by Roux. As for Mac Orlan, preferring to become the leader of social fantasy, this was his penultimate "escapade" (before Les Contemporaines galantes, published in 1930) in the world of curiosa that he had been frequenting since the beginning of the century. Pia 855, Perceau 303-3, Dutel 1894.
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