Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, 1939. In-octavo 350-page paperback in a 14,5 x 21 cm slipcase. Folder cover protected by tracing paper. Bright full-color in-text illustrations by Jacques Touchet. Copy number 997, one of an edition of 3000 numbered from 200 to 3200 on fine vellum (beau vélin).
A fine, clean opened copy in a very good slipcase that shows normal traces of aging.
The Adventures of King Pausole is a novel by the French writer Pierre Louÿs which first appeared in 1900 as newspaper feuilleton. Pausole simplifies the Book of Customs inherited from his ancestors, and enacts the Tryphemus Code, with two articles: “1 - Do not harm your neighbor. 2 - This understood, do what you want. It has a harem of 366 young queens, who each spend one night a year with the king.
Language: French