Books For Sale:- Vignons, Max des: Fredi a L’ Ecole – Le Roman D’un Inverti, Librairie Artistique, Paris. 1929

Very happy to present an extremely rare and elusive title, and the original written and illustrated the mysterious Max de Vignons in 1929. Printed by Saint-Amand (Cher) – Imprimerie  A Clerc. Also meets my criteria as a rescued book on the basis of rarity, complete with all text and illustrations, both en-texte and full page. Most importantly all the material used to create this listing are from my copy and it currently in my bookcase. Details and full description appear in the listing under the heading,This Book.


Notes: Sur les chemins de Sodom is a reprint of Fredi en ménage (1930), originally published under the pseudonym Max des Vignons, by the Librairie Artistique, with illustrations by Smit, G. (Max des Vignons)


This Book

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Title Page

The 1929, title page and cover prints, the name of the character “Frédi” with an acute accent This is not the case for the front covers, of the previous volumes, nor for the content in which  text refers to him without an accent.

It is likely that the author was inspired by the  series, published by the Select Library, to name his main character, since these works deal with the theme of cross-dressing.

Résumé / Summary:-

“The ‘Fredi’ series in 3 volumes is a sincere and conscientious study of sexual inversion. In Fredi at School, it is the beginning of the inversion, his slow and indecisive walk, the particular state of the young invert, his complex mentality, then the manifestation of the first rapprochements. In “Fredi s’amuse,” Fredi is out of school; he is a student, he lives free.

Women are looking to seduce him. And he leaves their hands absolutely disenchanted and returns to his real satisfaction. In the last volume, “Fredi en ménage”, We see the complete blossoming of his sexuality. Fredi dreams of creating a home for himself, of owning a household, but, of course, in secret.

Gaston Smit, a talented author and illustrator, operated as both from the late 1890’s until just before the second world war, as a specialist in flagellation literature and both lesbian; homesexual, and bi and gay, gender studies. Gaston Smits’ gender is unknown, they also wrote articles for mainstream publications and journals, and took on commissions (primarily art) for works of classical historical importance. Have some fun and do your own research, on this mysterious character. I have seen various articles claiming to have identified “Gaston Smit”. I remain unconvinced and I am certain many more clandestine identities will emerge in good time.


Opposite P.14 (related to text locatred P 18)


image for text facing P 38


image for text facing P 48


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Engraving P 67



 







 

 


 


See Also

Bookcase Archive : Van Rowel, Désiré, Le Château des cuisants souvenirs: Librairie Artistique et Édition Parisienne réunies: 1934. Illustrated by Carlo

 

Books for Sale: Starbine, James, Gisèle et Pierrette ou Les Esclaves d’Island Castle, Librairie Artistique et Édition Parisienne réunies, ill, Georges Topfer (Gaston Smit) Paris, 1932

 

Books for Trade: Blackeyes, (Sadie) [Pierre MacOrlan, aka Pierre Dumarchey].PETITE DACTYLO. Suivi de: Les Belles clientes de M. Brozen et du: Maitre d’Ecole. avec un choix de lettres concernant les faits curieux touchant la flagellation des misses et des femmes

This Book is Part of my private collection and may be listed for sale in the near future, as it has served it’s purpose by being recorded as a complete book and can now be sold.

Enquiries are welcome, but i do not sell direct from this site as all my sales a routed via eBay or various auction sites, I no longer sell at auction on eBay.


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New into the collection:Samuel Beckett, 1955 SAMUEL BECKETT | MOLLOY | a novel | translated from the French | by Patrick Bowles | in collaboration with the Author | COLLECTION MERLIN | THE OLYMPIA PRESS | 1953, The Commonwealth Edition.

2.5.1 MOLLOY
Samuel Beckett, 1955 SAMUEL BECKETT | MOLLOY | a novel | translated from the French | by Patrick Bowles | in collaboration with the Author | COLLECTION MERLIN | THE OLYMPIA PRESS | 8 rue de Nesle, Paris, 6e Collation: 248 pp. [1]-716, 88, 94. 18.0 x 12.8 cm, all edges trimmed. Printed on white wove paper. Contents: pp. [1,2] blank. p. [3] molloyř. p. [4] ALL RIGHTS RESERVED IN ALL COUNTRIES | BY THE OLYMPIA PRESS, PARIS | AND GROVE PRESS, NEW YORK. p. [5] title, as above, reverse blank. pp. [7]-241 text. p. [242] blank. p. [243] PRINTED MARCH 1955 BY |IMPRIMERIE MAZARINE | PARIS | Printed in France | [rule] | Dépôt légal : 1er trimestre 1955. pp. [244-248] blank. Binding: Plain white wrappers trimmed flush with body of book, under thick paper dustjacket with abstract design in black, blue and yellow running over back and spine to front. Front cover: [in black within interconnected yellow panels:] molloy | THE OLYMPIA PRESS | by | samuel beckett. Spine blank. Printed at top centre of inside back flap is FRS 1.200. Back cover has PRINTED IN FRANCE in black in top left hand corner.
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Notes: (1) Mr. Andrew Walker examined the late Alan Clodd’s copy of this edition of Molloy when in the possession of Maggs Bros., the London bookseller. He writes: At the top of the inside flap of the rear of the dustwrapper appears: SPECIAL PRINTING FOR SALE | IN THE U.K. & COMMONWEALTH [price blocked out with felt-tip pen]. With the aid of a magnifying glass and a bright light I could just about make out the letter-press impression as 12/6ř The final leaf and final printed leaf of the novel’s text are cut short with the signature 9 on the latter sliced half way through. In the compiler’s copy the same leaves are cut short, but the signature is intact. Federman & Fletcher, Samuel Beckett. His Works and His Critics. An Essay in Bibliography, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1970, entry no. 374, mention copies overstamped FRANCE FEATURES, and [5] FRANCE FEATURES | 15, NEW ROW, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, | LONDON, W.C.2. This is not present on Clodd’s copy. Mr. Walker elaborates: There is no marking on the cover, titlepage or anywhere else to show involvement of France Features per se. As for Alan Clodd’s point about separate editions for France and the UK as quoted by Federman & Fletcher, this is supported by the fact that the printing on the inside flap of the rear of the dustwrapper begins on the line where the other copy has no more than FRS 1.200. The French pricing and sterling pricing, &c., were clearly separate exercises on previously unmarked dws. (2) I am indebted to M. Hans-Peter Litscher of Paris for informing me that the cover design for Molloy, although unsigned, was actually the work of the artist Shinkichi Tajiri, who was also responsible for designing the wrappers of Henry Miller’s Quiet Days in Clichy (6.6). It appears that Tajiri was not aware of this fact until M. Litscher sent him a colour Xerox of Molloy‘s wrappers in February, 2000. He then recalled doing a collage for Girodias, who used it without informing the artist. (3) The tradition of an Olympia Press edition of Molloy in paper boards seems to have started with advertisements in similarly bound editions of The Ginger Man (5.7.2), I Hear Voices (5.60.1) and Watt (5.95.1). In fact, it doesn’t appear that such an edition was actually published; there is no copy in any library catalogue, and there is no entry for it in Federman & Fletcher, the standard bibliographical source for Beckett. Copy used:

Books For Sale:Van Rod, Aimé, La Revanche du mormon, moeurs américaines, fouet, bizarreries d’amour, Édition Parisienne, Roberts & Dardaillon, 1908.

Van Rod, Aimé, La Revanche du mormon, moeurs américaines, fouet, bizarreries d’amour, Édition Parisienne, Roberts & Dardaillon, 1908. 7 illustrations de Del Giglio, M. Cover, frontispiece and five tipped in. In original publishers illustrated covers text printed in red and purple, Author, title and publisher printed on spine , original price obscured. Printers motif on back cover. 256 pages, + 4 pages of table of contents. iv adverts. Printed by Saint-Armand (Cher)-Imprierie Bussiere..

Aimé Van Rod is the pseudonym of a probably French author who published from 1907 to 1915, and whose texts were republished until the 1930s.

Between 1907 and 1912, the publishers of Messrs. Roberts & J. Dardaillon published several erotic works, among others for Charles Carrington. They also used the name Édition Parisienne and William Murray.

Civic address: Roberts & Dardaillon, 9, rue du Faubourg Montmartre and 66, boulevard Magenta. Paris.

A lovely production and and a very good copy ‘ gerneral light signs of usage and some rough page edges, where pages had been carelessly cut.

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