first edition Magazine
1951 · Paris
by Galtier-Boissière, Jean, editor, Marquis de Sade, Pierre Dominique, Dr. Chertier, Charles Blanchard, J. L. Durandeau, Georges Allary, Henri Calet, Dominique Braga
Paris: Crapouillot, 1951. Magazine. 80p., 9.5x12.5 inches, text in French, illustrated with photos and artwork, #3/335 copies of the original limited edition on special paper, very good magazine in white pictorial wraps. The magazine contains significant material on prostitution, pederasty, lesbianism, sadism and more. Covers anthropological studies of sexuality in the Philippines, Africa, Japan etc. French satirical magazine begun by Galtier-Boissiere in the trenches of WWI. The title is derived from trench warfare black humor meaning a combination of "the little toad" & "small trench mortar (Inventory #: 47317)