Nov 29, 2007 - Sale 2130

Sale 2130 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 2,640
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(SURREALISM.) [Aragon, Louis.] Le Con d'Irene. Frontispiece and 4 erotic engraved plates by Masson. 4to, publisher's red wrappers lettered in black, spine fragile and ends rubbed; binding threads mostly broken, leaving contents somewhat shaken. [Paris: privately printed by Réne Bonnell], 1928
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scarce anonymously printed work of erotica. number 94 on vergé d''arches. Le Con d''Irène chronicles a man''s torment when he becomes fixated upon the genitalia of an imaginary woman and is reduced to voyeuristically scoping her erotic encounters and describing various events in brothels and other sexual adventures. While he admitted his authorship in private circles, Aragon never acknowledged it publicly.