Margueritte, Victor - Bécat, Paul-Émile - La Garçonne. A nov - Lot 218

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Margueritte, Victor - Bécat, Paul-Émile - La Garçonne. A nov - Lot 218
Margueritte, Victor - Bécat, Paul-Émile - La Garçonne. A novel of manners. Paris, Éditions Germaine Raoult, 1957. In-4, half morocco with tan corners, gilt fillet on the covers, spine decorated with a mosaic composition and gilt fillets, gilt head, first cover preserved, lined slipcase - 282 pp, [3] ff, frontispiece and 15 illustrations by Bécat (12 of which are full page). Edition at 1015 numbered copies, 1/900 on vélin de Rives (n° 967). Published in 1922, this novel, with its independent and sexually liberated heroine, caused a scandal and earned its author a stripping from the Order of the Legion of Honor. Its numerous erotic episodes inspired many illustrators. Nice copy.
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