Pia Pascal Editor (2 results)
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Published by La Jeune Parque, Paris, France, 1947
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- Signed
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerSoftcover. Limited Edition: #738/4000. Octavo, 421 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's printed beige wrap and glassine protective covering. Slight tearing to glassine along top and bottom edges. Beige spine is tanned with black lettering. Tanning to beige front and back covers with minor soiling and possible wate…r damage to lower back cover near spine. Slight writing in pencil to top left corner of back cover. Small white sticker affixed to bottom of spine with the number '700.' Age-toning to textblock with tanning along side edge. Inscribed by Nadeau on half-title page. This is a collection of Sade's works selected by Nadeau featuring an essay on Sade's continued significance by Nadeau's colleague, Pascal Pia. Nadeau was a French writer and literary critic who was a member of the resistance during the occupation. Along with his writings on Sade and other significant literary figures, he wrote a seminal text about the history of surrealism. 1370636. Special Collections - Downstairs. Signed.
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Poésies érotiques d?un auteur célèbre, illustrées de trente-deux lithographies originales dessinées par un artiste inconnu.
[LOU?S (Pierre)], [VERTÈS (Marcel)] (Illustrations) & [PIA (Pascal)] (Editor).
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- First Edition
Seller: CARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOKS, LONDON, United KingdomCARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOKS
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Add to basket[Erotic poesy from a celebrated author, illustrated with thirty-two original lithographs by an unknown artist]. 32 illustrations, with 18 in full page, 31 printed in black and the last in rose framboise. First illustrated edition. 4to., endpaper, half-title, title, loose leaves in a folded paper wrapper; titles in black and grey… on upper portion, glacine jacket, in a grey Ingres paper covered card slipcase and chemise, titles in holograph on spine ? possibly in Perceau's hand, French text. An out of series example inscribed 'de Louis Perceau P.P.' , printed on Hollande from a complete run of 170 copies with 165 numbered on Whatman, the next 14 on Hollande Van Gelder with 3 drawings and two suites of prints in noir and rose framboise and three rejected lithographs in black, and 150 copies on ve?lin de Hollande Van Gelder numbered 16 to 165. There are also 5 examples revealing the artist's name and with specially treated prints. Barcelone, Atarazanas [Paris], [Rene? Bonnel], l'An I de la Re?publique Catalane, 1932. £1000.00 Near fine contents and wrapper, slipcase browned and chipped with splits starting, spine of chemise browned also. Dutel 2228, Pia 1155. Provenance: a wonderful association copy from one of the great erotic bibliographers, and the editor of this book, to one of the other founding fathers of the discipline. From the Bibliothe?ques of Jean-Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat. The book was not of course published in the shipyards of Barcelona in the newly declared au- tonomous region of Catalonia in the founding year of the Spanish Republic but was declared so in homage or in solidarity, Pia was a lifelong leftist and activist. 219152.
