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Mary Reynolds

Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou, L’école du libertinage (The 120 Days of Sodom, or The School of Libertinage)

Published 1931–35 (text c. 1789); rebound c. 1935–50

Book issued in three volumes and rebound into two; letterpress text. Bespoke rebinding and slipcase by Reynolds for Man Ray. Rebinding: covers of metallic silver-colored paint on goat leather over boards, vol. I with a cross-shaped gelatin silver print by Man Ray ("Monument à D.A.F. de Sade," 1933) mounted on front; title hand-lettered in pyrography on each spine

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Author Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François), Maurice Heine (foreword)
Medium Book issued in three volumes and rebound into two; letterpress text. Bespoke rebinding and slipcase by Reynolds for Man Ray. Rebinding: covers of metallic silver-colored paint on goat leather over boards, vol. I with a cross-shaped gelatin silver print by Man Ray ("Monument à D.A.F. de Sade," 1933) mounted on front; title hand-lettered in pyrography on each spine
Dimensions Pages: 10 5/8 × 8" (27 × 20.3 cm); Book 1 (vo. I, closed): 10 15/16 × 8 11/16 × 1 9/16" (27.8 × 22 × 4 cm); Book 2 (vols. II–III, closed): 10 15/16 × 8 11/16 × 1 3/4" (27.8 × 22 × 4.4 cm); Slipcase: 11 1/4 × 9 × 3 7/16" (28.5 × 22.8 × 8.8 cm)
Publisher S. & C., "Aux Dépens des Bibliophiles Souscripteurs" [ Stendhal & Compagnie, Paris ]
Printer Stendhal & Compagnie, Paris
Edition 396. Sixty numbered 1–60 on Japon impérial paper, for La Société du Roman Philosophique; 300 numbered 61–360 on Rives paper; sixteen collaborator’s copies lettered A–P on Japon impérial paper; twenty donor’s copies numbered i–xx on Rives paper. This copy no. 328
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 516.2022
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