Leopold von SACHER-MASOCH / Bakalowicz / Éloïse Baille - La Vénus à la fourrure

Sacher-Masoch (Leopold von). Venus in Fur. A novel about flogging. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1902. — In-8, 214x134 mm - (5 ff.), XXXVII, 216 pp. frontispiece after Bakalowicz, Flesh-colored box, vertical band of slightly raised squares, interrupted by the author’s name and the title in black, framed by 4 curved red lines, at the center of the first cover, date 1902 in red and a horizontal band of 9 black dots at the center of the second cover, smooth mute spine, endleaves and guards of red velvet, not cut, velvet box beige, lined with black velvet (Éloïse Baille). Binet, Martin Van Maele or the devil hides in the detail, 2017, 133. First French edition, translated from German and prefaced by Raphaël Ledos de Beaufort This text, first published in 1870 under the title Venus im Pelz, is an autobiographical erotic novel exploring themes of masochism, fetishism, and female domination. The author, through the character of Severin, describes his quest for a relationship in which he embodies the slave subjected to a cruel and dominant woman, Wanda von Dunajew, clad in fur. The edition is illustrated with a frontispiece after Bakalowicz and 20 vignettes in the text, two by Martin van Maele (pp. 149 and 169). Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on Hollande paper (no. 261). Very fine copy in the original binding by Éloïse Baille, unsigned. The black velvet of the emboîtage’s endleaves has left traces on the covers in places."

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