Carnet Intime. [Intimate Notebook]

TAILHADE (Laurent) & KHARIS (Woodcuts).

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12mo., endpaper, half-title/tirage, frontispiece, illustrated title, section title, pp-9-107, [2pp.], 3 plates hors-texte with the original loose paper guards, endpieces throughout, sewn, in the original white paper wrapper, titles in red and black on the upper portion; with a small vignette also in black, titles in black on the spine and lower portion, glacine overwrapper, untrimmed, bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper, French text. In a black and olive brown paper covered slipcase and portfolio, titles in black within a box on spine, The?re?se Treille has signed on the purple paper lining the sleeve. Number 684 of 700 copies on Papier de Hollande numbered 51 to 750, from a complete run of 790 numbered copies with 1-50 on papier Imperial du Japon and 40 hors commerce copies numbered by hand in Roman numerals. Paris, Aux Editions Du Sagittaire, 1920. £120.00 Dusty wrapper and the longer untrimmed paper edges. Slipcase a trifle rubbed in two places. A crisp copy. Provenance: Julio Mario Santo Domingo commissioned Treille to box up his favourite books. The opening line introduces ' Une maquerelle' ( Madam) on the need for masturbatory literature. Tailhade is depicted in the evening wear of the louche gambler in one plate and there is also a beautifully rendered nude posing in a chambre. 233886.

Seller Inventory # 233886

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carnet Intime. [Intimate Notebook]
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)