Louys, Pierre; drawings by Clara TiceBiblio.com
Woman and Puppet: A Spanish Romance "presentation" copy with original drawing
192729878n.p.: "Privately Printed for The Pierre Louÿs Society". Very Good. c.1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 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 . "Privately Printed for The Pierre Louÿs Society" hardcover
ReadInk · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €
