Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man by Sade, Marquis De - 1927

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

One of de Sade's earlier works, but from an unpublished manuscript first published in France in 1926. 1st U.S. ed., small 4to, decorated cloth. 52 pp+. on handmade paper, deckled edges. The first edition in English, translated from the French by Samuel Putnam. Number 415 of 650 copies.
The work expresses the author's atheism by having a dying man tell a priest about what he views as the mistakes of a pious life. deSade completed the notebook which contains the Dialogue while imprisoned at Château de Vincennes. He took the manuscript with him when he was transferred to the Bastille in 1784.
Following the Storming of the Bastille in 1789, deSade's manuscript survived in private collections and was sold on at auction a number of times during the nineteenth century. In 1920 it was bought by Maurice Heine who oversaw its publication in France for the first time in 1926 in a limited edition of 500 copies for which he wrote an introduction. This first English translation includes Heine's introduction.… Read More

Chicago: Pascal Covici. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth-backed boards titled/decorated in gilt, TEG. A little shelf scuffing, tiny fray spot to top edge, spine ends slightly bumped. #160 of 650 copies. ; quarto; 52 pages .

Chicago: Pascal Covici, Publisher. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1927. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 52 pages; Copy #146 of 650. Jacket with some soiling, rubbing, light chipping and edgewear. .

Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. Book. Good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). 52 pages of text. Original black hardcover binding is heavily rubbed at the extremities, with the spine torn, worn and frayed, remaining intact and attractive; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Of this edition there have been printed for Pascal Covici in May 1927, by The Cuneo Press, Inc., six hundred and fifty numbered copies only on French hand-made paper and the type distributed. Typography by Douglas C. McMurtrie. This is No. 77. Previous owner's bookplate neatly on the inside front cover. There are a few tiny and minor spots of discoloration in the margins, but for the most part the text is clean and unmarked. From an Unpublished Manuscript Edited and With an Introduction and Notes by Maurice Heine. Translated by Samuel Putnam. First edition..