One Hundred Eleven Notes for the New Justine

SADE, Marquis de. One Hundred Eleven Notes for the New Justine. Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1956. First edition, fourth title of the Le Terrain Vague collection. HORS COMMERCE COPY V, outside the edition, on fine paper. Illustrated cover with surrealist figure in sanguine by Bona de Mandiargues. EXCEPTIONAL AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION of the artist Bona on the title page: 'To Carlo Cardazzo, the illustrator in memory of the Rome exhibition, affectionately Bona, Rome 12-12-56'. Provenance of the highest prestige: Carlo Cardazzo (1908-1963), founder of the Cavallino galleries in Venice and the Naviglio in Milan, was the most important Italian gallerist of the postwar period, promoter of Fontana's Spatialism and the group of Eight. The dedication documents a Roman exhibition by Bona in December 1956. Publisher's wrappers with wear from use, foxing to early leaves. A unique document uniting avant-garde erotic publishing, surrealism and the most important Italian gallery of the twentieth century.