Andre Dugo Illustrations (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Original black boards, illustrations in colour, unpaged, 8vo.; Small stains top cover and top edge cover slightly damaged.

Hardcover. Condition: poor to near fine. Limited edition. 1/1000. Large Quarto. (xliii), 300pp, [1]. Light blue slipcase, tan label with red border and lettering mounted on spine. Red textured leather over blue paper boards, tan label with gilt border and gilt lettering mounted on spine. Front cover with gilt initials "TG" in center, underlined in red. This limited edition, #545/1000 hand numbered and signed by illustrator André Dugo, contains illustrations throughout drawn by him and were lithographed by The Duenewald Printing Corporation, the colors being applied by hand in the studio of Charlize Brakely. Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, but never finds one that meets his standards of female perfection. Having an affair with a woman known as Rosette, he becomes confused when she receives a visitor. The visitor causes unknown passion to rise in d'Albert, Rosette is captured by her visitor as well. This novel explores passionate desire and sexual curiosity. Slipcase separating at top, chipping to extremities, sunning to edges and spine, close tear at head of spine. Binding with very light stains to covers, minor rubbing to spine. Slipcase in poor, binding in very good+, interior in very good+ to near fine condition overall.…

Cloth DW (sl sunned/frayed) 48pp illus.Cover tips sl rubbed, internally VG+.

[The Colonel's Wife's Cousins by The Viscountess of the Burning Heart]. 16 colour pochoir illustrations. New limited, numbered edition. Tall 8vo. endpaper, blank, half-title, frontispiece, title, pp-9- 313, [1p.], colophon, endpaper, in the original white paper wrapper, pink paper dustjacket with titles on upper portion in red, glacine from much later, French text. A subscribers' only publication, this copy number 85 from 234 copies on Verge? d'Arches numbered 17 to 250, from a complete run of 300 numbered copies with the first 16 on Papier Impe?rial du Japon, with a watercolour and a suite of illustrations in black on Papier de Chine, and 50 examples numbered 251 to 300 without illustrations. Paris, E?ditions Du Condor, 1933. £225.00 Text and plates crisp, jacket with a closed tear, faded and dusty spine, bookseller's notes in pencil in front. A nice example of a fragile and light coloured book subject to dust and patina. No copy of this edition in Houghton. Dutel 1314. Scarce erotic classic. Provenance: a neat, perhaps feminine, hand has inscribed 'orne? de 16 H.T. en couleurs' in purple ink under the title. First published in 1880, the Vicomtesse ran a Parisian literary salon that was frequented by the likes of Verlaine ( Dutel ). A book that perhaps through fault of being good and erotic has apparently been attributed to Maupassant (a male author). A pattern repeated of course for The Story of O . 218987.…