Erotic Works: The Pornographer, The Anti-Justine, Dom Bougre (Selected Passages)

RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE. Erotic Works: The Pornographer, The Anti-Justine, Dom Bougre (Selected Passages). Paris, Éditions Arcanes, Collection 'La Mandragore', 1953. 8vo, original publisher's wrappers in cream color with titles impressed in red and black. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies on Bellegarde vellum, this no. 329. Published by Erik Losfeld, a central figure in postwar Parisian erotic and surrealist publishing. Collects excerpts from the most scandalous works of the 'Rousseau of the gutter': The Anti-Justine, polemical response to the Marquis de Sade, The Pornographer, a utopia on the regulation of prostitution, and Dom Bougre, porter of the Charterhouse, an eighteenth-century clandestine classic. Copy with normal wear to wrappers, spine slightly sunned, fragile hinges. Testimony to the twentieth-century rediscovery of French libertine literature in elegant bibliophile editions.