L’Écrin du rubis ou Les Délices des dessous Au Cabinet du Livre [ Jean Fort ] 1932. illustrated by P.Silex
This is the first edition and a beautiful item, a later reissue in the same series and illustrated by Herric was published in 1939 and is linked at the base of this post as is another work, published under the title Confidences égarées, belonging to the original manuscript of L’Écrin du rubis which was also published by Jean Fort, in the Collection des Orties Blanches, in 1932.
Contained in the book was an advertising flier for the title a single sheet of glossy paper with the cover duplicated on the front and the prospectus, printed on the verso.
THIS BOOK
Wrappers and contents are complete and in Very Good condition. The contents are shaken and some gatherings are loose and attached only at the base. Primarily due to a heavy book in a lightweight cover. It is quite possible that the is the only copy of this tiny limitation (IV /VI- 1 of 6), still in its original covers. Any buyer should consider having this book professionally repaired or rebound. Book is still overall Very Good.
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Lauris, Liane de L’Écrin du rubis ou Les Délices des dessous Au Cabinet du Livre [ Jean Fort ] 1932. illustrated by P.Silex, In publishers original colour illustrated paper covers, text printed in blue, author; title; original price 25 Francs and Jean Fort editeur, 79 Rue de Vaugirard, printed in blue on spine. Small blue motif and IMP P. MARMY. PARIS, Printed in blue on back cover. 245 pages, decorated with 16 full page heliogravures in bistre, signed P Silex, one of only 6 copies printed on Papier d’ Arches (No IV of VI), Book printed by, L’imprimerie Darantiere,a Dijon en Mars M.CM. XXXII ( March 1932) Book measures, 20 x 15 x 4 cm. Weight 500gr.
Bécourt 24 and 28: Convicted by the Criminal Court of the Seine 10th chamber on 8 May 1950 and then by the Paris Court of Appeal 10th chamber on 27 October 1953; convicted by the Criminal Court of the Seine, 17th chamber, on 14 May 1954. The entry mistakenly indicates Liane de Cosys, and gives as subtitle Les délices des deux sous!
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Sample text ( English Translation)
The mischievousness of this merry-go-round, the spice of what it had at once of secrecy and publicity, the perversity of my attitude of accomplice and victim, what was troubling in enjoying a pleasure which they thought I was taking without my knowledge, all this added to the feeling of being violated in the private of my elegance, made me taste a strange flavor of these audacities. I could not tolerate them with a coarse rut that strayed unceremoniously on my flesh through the sheath of my panties. But I was defenseless against anyone who lingered with delight on all the details of an attire to which I myself, had attached all the libertine intentions by the choice I had made of it, and calculated with a view to a more sensitive touch.
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