Rachilde

1914 · réf. 32368 — Paris: Mercure de France 1914. Very Good. Paris: Mercure de France 1914. First Edition. Small octavo 23 cm; publisher's brown printed wrappers; 8209-4324pp. Wrappers generally toned and smudged with some offsetting on front panel. Dust soiled but pages relatively clean. A Very Good unopened copy overall. Literary magazine and review which was published on the 1st and 16th day of each month. This issue features a book review round up by French novelist and playwright Rachilde scandalous for both the liberating way she lived her life and her erotic gender-bending novel Monsieur Venus. Rachilde often appeared in the pages of the Mercure de France she was married to editor Alfred Vallette for a time. Her notoriety lent some popularity to the periodical. . Mercure de France unknown books