Woman and Puppet: A Spanish Romance ["presentation" copy, with original drawing]
Published by Privately Printed for The Pierre Louÿs Society (c.1927), (n.p.), 1927
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used



Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
AbeBooks seller since February 24, 1998
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 950.00
Quantity: 1 available
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(no dust jacket) [shelfwear to bottom edges with some exposure of boards, spine lettering and illustration heavily rubbed, otherwise a good sound copy]. (color plates, chapter-head drawings) Mild erotica, originally published in 1898, and best remembered today (if at all) because of its delirious 1935 film adaptation, THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN, directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich and Lionel Atwill. The illustrations (color frontispiece, 9 color plates with tissue-guards intact, a title-page drawing, and chapter-head line drawings) feature lots of nekkid ladies (Ms. Tice's specialty) and bear captions along the lines of "She smiled with her legs as she spoke with her torso." This is stated on the limitation page to be one of "1250 copies of which 990 are for America." Although one is usually well-advised to take the professed numbers on these vintage-erotica items with a grain of salt, what makes this one especially interesting, though, is that instead of a number written into the blank space below the statement, the single word "presentation" is inked; in addition, on the half-title page is a 3-inch-tall *original* drawing (of yet another nudie) that is SIGNED by Clara Tice. (See second scanned image with this listing.) Signed by Illustrator.…
Seller Inventory # 29878
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Woman and Puppet: A Spanish Romance ["presentation" copy, with original drawing]
- Author
- Louÿs, Pierre; drawings by Clara Tice
- Publisher
- Privately Printed for The Pierre Louÿs Society (c.1927), (n.p.)
- Publication year
- 1927
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Clara Tice
- Edition
- Limited Edition.
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