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DULAC, Jean (1902-1968) -- [VALOTAIRE, Marcel.] Nelly et Jean. Nous deux. Simples papiers du tiroir secret. [Argenteuil and Paris: Coulouma and Vernant for the author, 1929.]
3 volumes [including one for the additional plates], octavo in half sheets (280 x 190 mm). 46 hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text, and 106 additional engraved plates, comprising two plates not published in the edition, eight proofs, and two full duplicate suites, one of these in a preliminary state, including the cover illustrations for each volume. Original wrappers with a hand-coloured illustration on the upper side of each volume, in the original printed paper covered cardboard chemises and slipcase (chemises lightly and evenly darkened at the spine and light rubbed at the joints, slipcase darkened and rubbed).
ONE OF ONLY TWELVE COPIES OF THIS MASTERPIECE OF 20TH-CENTURY EROTIC ILLUSTRATION. This deluxe issue on Japan imperial paper includes two unpublished illustrations, two additional suites of plates, and eight proof plates. It is the most desirable state of the most desirable art deco erotic book. 'This edition was the most expensive of the clandestine editions of the age' (Dutel). Copy number two from an edition of 295 copies only. Dutel 2054; Pia Enfer, 983.
3 volumes [including one for the additional plates], octavo in half sheets (280 x 190 mm). 46 hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text, and 106 additional engraved plates, comprising two plates not published in the edition, eight proofs, and two full duplicate suites, one of these in a preliminary state, including the cover illustrations for each volume. Original wrappers with a hand-coloured illustration on the upper side of each volume, in the original printed paper covered cardboard chemises and slipcase (chemises lightly and evenly darkened at the spine and light rubbed at the joints, slipcase darkened and rubbed).
ONE OF ONLY TWELVE COPIES OF THIS MASTERPIECE OF 20TH-CENTURY EROTIC ILLUSTRATION. This deluxe issue on Japan imperial paper includes two unpublished illustrations, two additional suites of plates, and eight proof plates. It is the most desirable state of the most desirable art deco erotic book. 'This edition was the most expensive of the clandestine editions of the age' (Dutel). Copy number two from an edition of 295 copies only. Dutel 2054; Pia Enfer, 983.
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