From CARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
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The author's manuscript and loose proofs of the French printed book. I. Original manuscript. 8vo. (20.9 x 13.5 cm.), 3ll. loose unpaginated bifolia [8pp.]; holograph title and epigram from Horace in purple ink. With a signed, contemporaneous presentation inscription from the author to his cousin Renee? Rode in sepia, dated 8 years before publication. The text in blue ink, minus the title in purple on the first page, with the 18 stanzas numbered in latin and with stanzas marked with brackets and numbering in pencil on the left margins. N.p. [Paris], c. 1924, inscription dated September 1926. II. Original author's proofs for the second edition. 8vo., endpaper, 2 duplicate leaves thus: half-title/notice, title in red and black, pp-5-11, [1p.], endpaper, fore-edges untrimmed. The uncut bifolia inserted into an oversized paper folded wrapper of grey-blue Ingres with titles in red and black on the upper portion and the author's real name. Paris, Imprime? Pour L'Auteur [by Maurice Duflou], 30, rue du Dr Heulin, MCMXXXIV, [1934]. Both in a red Avery document folder. £5,000.00 The wrapper is a trifle tired but both manuscript (with one old central horizontal fold) and pamphlet are in a crisp and impeccable state, the former entirely legible. The published book is very rare in- deed, WorldCat shows only the BnF's, Ex- 'Enfer' , copy and another in the Santo Domingo deposit at Harvard's Houghton Library (this, possibly, the Jean-Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat copy). Good manuscripts by Perceau come but rarely on the market, they were shaken out of the bushes by Santo Domingo's need to acquire in a huge sale and when he got me to try and outbid the loom- ing BnF's intervention for Perceau's catalogue fiches. The full inscription on the title of the maquette like manuscript in a careful hand and a beautiful signature with a flourish, reads: '' A ma cousine Rene?e Rode 'la jeune e?pouse?e' mais moins rousse, j'imagine Louis Perceau septembre 1926'' [' To my cousin Rene?e Rode 'the young bride' but less red, i would imagine Louis Perceau september 1926 ]. Provenance: Perceau to Rene?e Rode, sold at auction to Vrain thus to Santo Domingo. A clandestine work of urolagnia written by the great bibliographer of erotic literature, one of the three pillars, along with Apollinaire and Fleuret, who compiled the monumental ?Enfer de la Bibliothe?que nationale' . Published from his home address. Perceau kept it in the family, so to speak, and gave it to his young cousin, the ' young bride ' with less ' red ' than the ' Jeune E?pouse?e ' with the ' russet-hued fleece ' of the third, obscene, poem in the collection. Pia notes that ' . the greater amount of examples of this pamphlet were sold during soirees at the Lapin Agile, Montmartre, where Perceau went once or twice a week to recite his Pisseuses' (my translation). ? The Nimble Rabbit ' where a mere twenty years before, the host Pere Fre?de? sang popular songs on an out of tune guitar to Picasso and his circle. 243762. Seller Inventory # 243762
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Title: Les Pisseuses. Poème. [The Pissers. A Poem].
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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