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[Erotic Drafts for the secret museum of Gabriele d' Annunzio, discovered by Pierre Pascal]. First edition. Tall 8vo., half-title, title, [1p.], ii-v, [1p.], 14pp., [2p.], colophon, sewn, printed on blue paper, in the original uniform blue paper wrapper with flaps, titles on upper portion in black, original [?] glacine jacket, French text. One of 75 copies on ve?lin bleu de Marais numbered 5 to 78, from a complete run of 114 numbered copies with the first four on Japon and the last 35 on ve?lin blanc. Paris, n.p. [Jacques Haumont], 1944. £350.00 Wrapper, edges and spine faded, glacine rumpled and creased, rare in commerce. Dutel 1443, Pia 393 . Provenance: from the collections of Jean-Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat. Erotic short notes made by the Italian poet in July and August of 1913, Pia, without spilling the beans that the author was actually himself, comments that: 'These notes were among a pile of papers collected by one who served as governess to the poet, and sometime matchmaker' . This was possibly Aelis Mazoyer '.who not only ran d'Annunzio's household and slept with him when required but also supplied him with cocaine and effectively pimped for him. ' ( p-89 Patrick Bade -Lem- picka,2006) 219400. Seller Inventory # 219400
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