Rare first edition of this 19th century lesbian erotic novel by the pseudonymous and prolific "E.D.," a sequel to LA COMTESSE LESBOS OU LA NOUVELLE GAMIANI.
Very good.
Price: $1,000.00
"... a déesse qu'on adore à Lesbos, la Vénus Lesbienne."
"E.D.," also the author of LESBIA, MAITRESSE DE L'ECOLE and several other works on similar themes, has been variously speculated to be Emile Desjardins, Edouard Demarchin, or (most often) Edmond Dumoulin, though the identification remains uncertain. His previous LA COMTESSE LESBOS, to which this work is a sequel, was subtitled "The New Gamiani" in homage to de Musset's (supposed) 1833 work and its protagonist, said to be based on George Sand. The diversions of the Countess in LEVRES DE VELOURS, set in the exotic locale of Andalusia, extend to staging a sequence of erotic tableaux vivants modeled on scenes from Voltaire, Lafontaine, and certain disreputable events from Greek and Roman mythology, exemplifying the pseudoclassical strain in French semi-pornographic lesbian literature before and particularly after Pierre Louÿs's only slightly more literary CHANSONS DE BILITIS. Rare; OCLC locates only 6 copies, with only one in the US (Stanford).
Read more: Albert, Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France; Dutel, Bibliographie des Ouvrages Erotiques Publiés Clandestinement en Français entre 1880 et 1920.
First printing. Paris [Amsterdam]: Chez la petite Lolotte [Auguste Brancart], 1889. 6.75'' x 4''. Quarter green cloth with marbled paper boards. Gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. 158, [2] pages. Edge scuffing and small tears to lower corner of front board, rubbing to cloth. Spine label slightly detached at corner. Rear endpapers slightly tattered.
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