Author: Mirbeau, Octave
Title: Le Jardin Des Supplices [the Torture Garden]
Description: Paris, Eugene Fasquelle, 1928. Reprint. Leather Bound. pp. 260. 8vo. Brentano's signed binding. 3/4 leather with 5 raised bands to spine, gilt lettering, decoration and rules; over marbled and textured paper. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Photographic portrait fontispiece with tissue guard. Light scuffing, bump to one corner, contents clean, binding sound; very good. Text is in French. Dedication translates: "To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood.

Keywords: Fine bindings; leatherbound; french literature; erotica; decadentism; goth; torture garden; signed binding; classics; gender; novel; fiction; sadist


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