History of the eye. With eight original lithographs. Paris, unnamed [René
Bonnel], 1928.
Small in-4, paperback, green paper cover filled.
Original edition.
Limited edition of 134 copies, this one of the 125 on vergé d'Arches à la forme (#131).
The illustration includes 8 original full-page lithographs by André Masson.
First erotic tale by Georges Bataille (1897-1962) published clandestinely by René Bonnel under the pseudonym of Lord Auch, whose writer later confessed that he was to say "Dieu" (Lord) "aux chiottes" (Auch). Model by Pascal Pia.
Copy preserved as published. Back and edges of the cover plates passed.
(Saphire & Cramer, André Masson, catalogue raisonné des livres illustrés, nº 6.- Dutel, Bibliographie des ouvrages érotiques clandestinement publiés en français entre 1920 et 1970, nº 1698: "Édition originale de ce somptueux roman de Georges Bataille, publié en 1928 par René Bonnel, d'après une maquette de Pascal Pia."- Pia, Les Livres de l'Enfer, col. 630).
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