Painful Pleasures

ByKaren Posted on Updated on Illustrated Books, Comics & Magazines

~ First published in 1931

Painful Pleasures is an adaptation and translation of extracts from the French work Fustigations vécues by Jean de Villiot (Paris, Charles Carrington, 1907) and various letters from the Correspondance section of works published by Jean Fort in the Collection des Orties Blanches, like Jacques d'Icy's Paulette trahie , illustrated by Louis Malteste (1922).

In 1931 the book was published (privately) titled Painful Pleasures, with art from Francis Heuber. There seems to be a second edition with art by Gerda Wegener and E. Remsen

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