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VERLAINE, PAUL. LES AMIES FILLES. Treize Pointes Sèches Rehaussées de Couleur et Culs-de-Lampe par Gustave Buchet.
Paris: Le Livre, (1921). Sm 4to, 82pp., unsewn, 13 hand color-washed etchings, 17 tailpieces, t-p vignette. Illus. wrappers, lt soiling & foxing to wrappers, spine splitting at joints with 2in. loss to head, internally clean save for occasional mild smudge, otherwise near fine in not quite very good wrappers. ¶ First Edition thus, limited to 425 copies on Van Gelder Holland rag, this being copy 162. His first erotic work, Verlaine published these six sonnets of adolescent lesbian sexuality pseudonymously in Brussels in 1868 to avoid French censorship. The final sonnet describes the suicide of Sappho, the ancient mistress of lesbians and patron of poetry. ¦ Swiss painter Gustave Buchet (1888-1963) pioneered the avant-garde in Geneva beginning in 1915, adopted futurism in 1917 and participated in the rise of dadaism in 1919. He soon emigrated to Paris where he became involved with the post-cubists and later in the purism of his compatriot, architect Le Corbusier. His erotic imagry is notable for its simple, stylish elegance. Not in Pia or Dutel. Monod 11063.
Offered for US$ 1000.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 2818.