[Dominique AURY, alias] Pauline RÉAGE.

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[Dominique AURY, alias] Pauline RÉAGE.
Histoire d'O. With a preface by Jean Paulhan. Sceaux, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954. In-12: lavaliere morocco, smooth spine, boards decorated with a mosaic in three shades of calf and morocco, gold filleted edges, black box lining and endpapers, double kromekote paper endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, double cover and spine preserved, folder, slipcase (Micheline de Bellefroid) First edition, printed at 600 numbered copies. One of the 20 first copies on arches (nº XII). Famous book, which remained anonymous for thirty years, awarded the Prix des Deux Magots in 1955. "We know what kind of trouble the publisher and the prefatory author went through during the legal investigation of this work, which was considered to be an affront to morality. The judge in charge of investigating the case could not get Paulhan, who had acted as intermediary between the author and M. Pauvert, to let him know the address or the real identity of Mme or Mlle Pauline Réage. In the end, there was no trial, but the case was only definitively closed in 1959" (Pascal Pia, Les Livres de l'Enfer, col. 634-635). A perfect copy in Micheline de Bellefroid's triple binding. From the libraries of Raoul Simonson, Albert Cornet-Epnat (bookplate partly torn off), Jean Lebrun and Jérémie Lebrun, with bookplate. A long typed letter signed by Pascal Pia addressed to the Belgian bookseller and collector Raoul Simonson is bound in at the head of the book. Dated February 8, 1963, it deals with Histoire d'O: Pia states that Paulhan had initially entrusted the manuscript to Robert Chatté, but that the latter had finally refused to be the publisher. It was therefore Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Sade's young publisher, who took charge of it. As for the identity of the author, Pia says he does not know, rejecting the attribution to André Pieyre de Mandiargues. "The other relatively plausible hypothesis is that the author is Dominique Aury, Paulhan's mistress. But I know too little about this person to formulate an opinion on what she is capable of."
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