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BOIS, Jules

Jules BOIS
L'amour doux et cruel
Eugène Figuière|Paris 1903|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
first edition on current paper, second edition mention, press service punch at the foot of the first cover.
Bindery in half fir tree green fir, smooth back discolored and illuminated, back decorated with nets and golden fleurons, piece of title of shagreen red, plates marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper to the vat, copuvertures illustrated conserved, binding of l 'time.
Autographed by Jules Bois to Charles Bernard.
€200
Jules BOIS
Le mystère et la volupté
Paul Ollendorff|Paris 1901|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, with third edition statement.
Bradel binding in half olive green cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, red shagreen title-label with minor marginal scratches, gilt date and double fillet at foot, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.

€100
Jules BOIS
Le mystère et la volupté
Paul Ollendorff|Paris 1901|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition, with statement of third edition.
Bradel binding in half cardboard resembling vellum, smooth spine decorated with a red and green floral frieze, red shagreen title-label, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
First endpaper shaded, otherwise handsome copy.

€100
Jules BOIS
Le couple futur
Librairie des Annales|Paris 1912|12 x 19 cm|relié
first edition on the current paper.
Binding to bradel half gray calico, smooth back with a gold floral motif, double golden tail thread, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Jules to Mr. and Mrs. Schmökel.
Nice copy.
€180
"Akademos will remain an ephemeral nonetheless high-quality creation, a groundbreaking gesture that will be an important milestone both in the history of the homosexual movement and the beginning of the 20th century"
"Akademos will remain an ephemeral nonetheless high-quality creation, a groundbreaking gesture that will be an important milestone both in the history of the homosexual movement and the beginning of the 20th century"
Jacques d' ADELSWÄRD-FERSEN (ed.) Tristan DERÈME
Akademos, Revue mensuelle d'art libre et de critique[Akademos, Monthly Review of Free Art and Criticism – Complete Set of the Twelve Deluxe Issues]
Albert Messein|Paris 15 janvier 1909-15 décembre 1909|22 x 25 cm|12 livraisons reliées en quatre volumes
First edition, complete with all 12 issues of this luxurious and short-lived review founded and directed by Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, one of the exceedingly rare copies on japon, the only deluxe paper, with four states of the colour engravings.
Bound in half sand-coloured cloth, morocco lettering pieces, marbled paper boards, spines and wrappers preserved for each issue, a fine copy with wide margins.
Our copy indeed contains the four colour states reserved for the deluxe issue, printed on various papers, of each of the 23 photogravures in Arts & Crafts, Symbolist, Renaissance, Art Nouveau, and Classical styles, after Maxwell Armfield, Henri...
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Jules BOIS
L'éternelle poupée
Paul Ollendorff|Paris 1894|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
first edition.
Binding in half chagrin green fir, back cleared with five nerves, back featuring slight traces of friction, marbled paper plates, guards and paper countertops to the vat, Contemporary binding.
Beautiful autograph signed by Jules Bois: "To Madame Valentine Sergent offering to her who incarnates the graces and the mercy of the woman".
Scattered foxing, tiny lack of paper in feet of the last two notebooks.
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Jules BOIS
Les deux Hélène
Grasset|Paris 1911|15 x 20.50 cm|broché
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