Books For Trade: Georges de Lesbos (Alphonse Momas), JOYEUSES ENFILADES, n.p ( Auguste Brancart) Amsterdam 1895.

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JOYEUSES ENFILADES, For sale on eBay


A very rare clandestine, first edition by Momas under one of his many pseudonyms’, this unique copy is embellished with 4 erotic (risque?) illustrations that would have been added post publication, unable to locate this one in any sales records.



Little seems known of Momas, other than his dates and the titles of the many books he wrote. According to Martial Beauvais in the Dictionnaire des œuvres érotiques, Momas was a low-level civil servant attached to the Préfecture de la Seine, presumably at their headquarters on the Quai des Orfèvres, who became interested in mysticism toward the end of life. As a biography, these are slim pickings, but some tentative conclusions, of admittedly dubious significance,
may be arrived at based on the dates of his books.
By the time Momas’ earliest books appeared around 1891, he would have been about 45 years of age. Twenty-one years later his career as a pornographer was effectively over, after having published comfortably in excess of seventy separate works. The only other author in the field at the time who comes close this achievement is the equally mysterious ‘E. D.’ under which pseudonym almost twenty titles were published, all by Auguste Brancart at Amsterdam, between
1887 and 1899, but even this score may be in doubt.

For further information about this author and his titles see.

http://scissors-and-paste.net/pdf/Alphonse_Momas.pdf


JOYEUSES ENFILADES, par Georges de Lesbos. Amsterdam: [?Auguste Brancart], 1895. Rebound in half brown leather over marbled boards, with author and title in gilt on spine, 175 pages, with 4 full page erotic illustrations inserted. Nice example of exceedingly rare title.







Another Bibliographical Mystery: FUKWEL (Alphonse Momas) (NOT) Grandes & Petites Filles (ACTUALLY) FRUIT VERTS. Amsterdam 1933 (Paris?) (Losfeld?)

Books for Trade; Gustave Droz, Jean-Adrien Mercier dit Jean d’Angers (illustrateur), Un été à la campagne, 1929

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Another title currently up for auction on Catawiki.


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Un été à la campagne : ,correspondance de deux jeunes parisiennes par un auteur à la mode.(Gustav Droz) Illustrated by Jean-Adrien Mercier (Jean d’Angers) Clandestine edition, falsely dated MDCCCLXVIII, (1928).
Rebound in quarter green leather with title and decoration in gilt on spine, original card covers bound in. Limited edition 218/280, with 12 hand coloured erotic illustrations. A very nice example with art deco style illustrations.


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Books for Trade: Gustave D [DROZ, Gustave, attributed to.] Un Été à la campagne. Correspondance de deux jeunes Parisiennes.Recueillie par un auteur a la mode Paris.1905: Illustrated by AVRIL, Paul: No Publisher [by E. Kapp for C. Hirsch]

Books For Trade. L’Anti-Justine ou Les délices de l’amour. Par M. Linguet Av. au et en Parlem. Restif de la Bretonne. Published by Paris, Au Clos Bruneau, A l’enseigne de la Gargouille, o. J. [d.i. M. Duflou, 1923]

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Returning after a long absence, I am going to experiment with posting items that will hopefully reawaken my interest in this blog and will encourage me to pay for another years subscription which I can ill afford.  Since I last posted anything I have been rummaging through my collection and finding items to list, this one is currently up for auction on Catawiki, I hope you like it.


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L’Anti-Justine ou Les délices de l’amour. Par M. LinguetAv. au et en Parlem.Restif de la Bretonne.

Published by Paris, Au Clos Bruneau, A l’enseigne de la Gargouille, o. J. [d.i. M. Duflou, 1923]., 1923, 278 pp. and 6 plates with explicit erotic heliogravures. 8vo. Original boards with title on cover in red and black and a small vignette (showing a little devil with a large erect penis). 100/ 140 numbered copies . This nice edition with very erotic illustrations printed on hand made paper has an introduction by Sylvestre Bonnard (i.e. Pierre Dufay). Boards a bit stained, some little tears at the margins, paper on spine partially torn. Inside paper time stained but not the plates.


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Books for Trade: Special Edition, L’Anti-Justine ou les delices de l’amour. Nouvelle edition entierement revue et corrigee, etablie pour la premiere fois sur le texte original de 1798. Precede d’une notice bibliographique par Helpey [d. i. L. Perceau.]