Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet - 2010

Paris: Gallimard, 1992-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. Text in French. Reprinted 1992. Binding tight and sturdy. Pencil throughout. Some soiling, tanning to wraps. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Milano: Il Saggiatore, 2016. Traduzione di Gibelli D. Milano, 2016; br., pp. 297. (La Cultura. 1). Una nave attracca al molo di Brest, sulla costa atlantica. A bordo, un equipaggio di marinai nerboruti contrae i muscoli annodando le funi sulla poppa, in una guazza di umori che impregna le fronti e le tempie. In mezzo a loro, Georges Querelle si staglia per grazia e violenza, per la bellezza serafica dei lineamenti e l'andatura imperiosa che lascia scorgere un lato impenetrabile e sinistro. Aitante narciso del mare, angelo della solitudine votato all'autodistruzione, il giovane marinaio è l'oggetto del desiderio di chiunque lo incontri, e contrappone alle avances dei suoi corteggiatori, uomini e donne, un'aura di dominazione che scatena le fantasie più bestiali. A Brest la natura ribelle di Querelle trova pieno appagamento. Il bordello La Feria è il ricettacolo di ogni forma di perversione, e l'arrivo del giovane in città destabilizza immediatamente la… Read More

La Cultura, 2016. Paperback. New. Italian language. 8.43x6.14x0.87 inches.

s.l.: s.n., 1947. 249 pp. 28.5 x 19.5 cm. Stiff paper wrappers printed with blue and red; second edition limited to 1,850 copies, this is copy number 442. Text in French. Toning and creasing to spine, with some wear to spine ends. Moderate soil and some light foxing to covers, with minor dampstaining to top edge of covers (no internal dampstaining). Interior is clean and unmarked. Binding sound, albeit slightly cocked. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

s.l., seconde edition In-4, 28 cm, 250pp., tirage numerote, reliure cart., dos a nerfs, titre dore, Nb-0209,

1947. Fine. 1947, 19x28,5cm, broché. - Edition postérieure de quelques mois à l'édition originale, publiée la même année et imprimée à 1850 exemplaires numérotés. Une petite déchirure recollée en tête du dos, une claire et pâle mouillure en pied de la dernière garde qui comporte également deux petites taches noires. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

[Paris: 1947]., 1947. 4to. pp. 249, [1], [1 leaf]colophon. untrimmed in original wrs. (wrs. foxed, a few gatherings roughly opened, 2 short splits at head of spine, a few marginal pencil notes). Second Edition, Limited to 1850 numbered copies. The original edition, published the same year in 525 copies, contained the scandalous homoerotic illustrations by Jean Cocteau..

Genet, Jean. QUERELLE DE BREST. Paul Morihien, Paris, 1947. Quarto, wraps, glassine dust jacket, 305pp. 1st Edition. Number 167 of the edition of 460 copies on vélin a la forme, from the total edition of 525.. With 29 illustrations by Jean Cocteau. A tear and a few small losses to the glassine, some intermittent light foxing, overall a Very Good to Near Fine copy of this now scarce book. "The book was prosecuted for affront to public decency (“outrages aux bonnes mœurs”) by the Criminal Court of the Seine, France, on July 3, 1954, and cleared of charges on procedural grounds on April 24, 1956." From Banned Books, An exhibition at the Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington, April 2019.Cocteau's illustrrations were deemed scandalous, and a second edition of 1500 was issued, also in 1947, without them. The book was not published in English until 1974.