LYNN PAULA RUSSELL (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Limited to 4000 copies, this being number 694. Hardback, finely rebound in a unique full leather binding, with the frontispiece plate repeated and tipped in on marbled paper to the upper board, gilt titling and contrasting title label to spine. Housed in a marbled card slipcase. Marbled endpapers. Fore-edge untrimmed. 19.5 × 14.5cm, 252pp. French text. From the library of noted collector Gordon R Smith, with his Ex Eroticis bookplate by Lynn Paula Russell, and signed by her in pencil lower right and dated 1995. Russell is an artist specialising in scenes of an erotic nature having been the illustrator for the magazines Janus and Februs, and has produced a number of books, as well as being know for her Ex Eroticis bookplates. First published in 1890, this is Anatole France's story of Paphnutius, a young Alexandrian debauche turned monk. Leading an ascetic life in the desert, he interprets his voluptuous dreams of the famous courtesan Thais as a call to convert her to Christianity. He succeeds in this aim, and she lives a short but saintly life as a hermit. Paphnutius, however, still dreams of her. In his attempt to hide from himself his lust for her, he mortifies his flesh relentlessly, and even spends some times as a stylite atop a high pillar, Finally he realizes his true feelings and tries to persuade her to flee the convent with him. As she dies, the abbess sends him away, horrified at the savagery that is finally revealed in his face. This edition illustrated with ten colour lithographs (frontispiece and 9 within the text) by Suzanne Ballivet. The illustrations are mildly erotic, displaying some nudity but Ballivet has created a set of delicate and restrained lithographs which serve the story well. Condition: This copy is in very good condition indeed. The leather binding is in excellent condition, the contents are clean and well bound. Light shelfwear to the slipcase but this is also good. With signed bookplate.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Undated, 1937. First edition. Limited to 390 copies, of which this is no. 36 of 380 on vergé de Rives. Hardback, finely rebound in a unique full leather binding, gilt titling to spine (on contrasting title labels) and upper board, the title page image of a nude lady reclining repeated in bas-relief to the upper board. Top edge gilt, silk endpapers and pastedowns, inner gilt dentelles. 22.5 × 15.5cm, 151pp. French text. From the library of noted collector Gordon R Smith, with his Ex Eroticis bookplate by Lynn Paula Russell, and signed by her in pencil lower right and dated 1996. Russell is an artist specialising in scenes of an erotic nature having been the illustrator for the magazines Janus and Februs, and has produced a number of books, as well as being know for her Ex Eroticis bookplates. A classic of French erotic writing, Devergondages (the title translates as Debauchery, Erotic Memories) is framed as a series of "fragments of a true autobiography." It chronicles the erotic life and sexual adventures of a man who is depicted as a refined connoisseur of the female form. This edition is illustrated with 12 colour plates with faux plate mark by DD, and with numerous headpieces and tailpieces in red by Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre. *Certain plates have been digitally obscured in the gallery for listing. High-resolution, unedited images are available upon request.* Note: Whilst the identity of Spaddy is generally considered to be Johannes Gros, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France consider the journalist Renee Dunan (1892-1936) a possibility for authorship. Condition: This copy is in very good condition but with a few condition issues to note: there is a little sun-fading to the spine, one illustrations has become neatly detached, and there is intermittent light marginal foxing but the majority of pages and plates in good clean condition. With signed bookplate.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. The slightly edge worn dust jacket has a well fitted sleeve but it's attached to the inner of the jacket by tape. Numbered limited edition of which this in number 81. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Appears unread.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Set of six lithographed prints, each initialled by the artist in pencil, publisher's blindstamp in lower margin. Contained in the issued gilt cloth folder. No.147 of 450 issued. Overall 14 x 10.5.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Set of six lithographed prints, each initialled by the artist in pencil, publisher's blindstamp in lower margin. Contained in the issued gilt cloth folder. No.149 of 450 issued. Overall 14 x 10.5. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Set of six lithographed prints, each initialled by the artist in pencil, publisher's blindstamp in lower margin. Contained in the issued gilt cloth folder. No.63 of 450 issued. Overall 14 x 10.5. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Octavo, bound in green cloth, gilt, in a complete d/jacket, complete with the erotic print Bhramaraka in folder, both book and print signed by the artist. No.199 of 250 issued. Fine. Print size 11.5 x 8". Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition (first printing). Signed copy. Hardback. Dust wrapper over green boards with gilt titles to the upper board; Measures 8¾" x 6" (0.8 kg); pp 0; Preface by Victor Arwas & Alison Spritzler-Rose; Number 45 of a limited printing run of 500 copies. Signed by the author, with dedication, on the half-title page without provenance but from the library of noted writer on erotica and pornography. Includes: Colour plates; Black & white plates; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199068 ||.

2 Fine Prints; 1 in colour (29.5 x 21 cms). Loosely inserted in black 4 flap limp card folder with paper title label to upper wrapp. No. 56 of a Limited Edition of 495 Copies. US$111.