Three original color photographs of Emmanuelle Arsan, circa 1965

N.p.: N.p., 1965. Three vintage color photographs of Marayat Rollet-Andriane (best known as Emmanuelle Arsan, the pen name she shared with her husband), circa 1965. Provenance stamps on the verso.

Marayat Bibidh was born into an aristocratic family in Bangkok in 1932. She met her future husband, then-30-year-old French diplomat Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane, at a Swiss boarding school as a teenager. The couple moved back to Bangkok after marrying in 1956, quickly gaining a reputation among tourists and expatriates for their hedonistic, polyamorous lifestyle.

The couple published their first novel, "Emmanuelle," without an author's (truncated) name in France in 1959. The book was successfully adapted for film by Just Jaeckin in 1974, and subsequent editions in the Emmanuelle series were ascribed to "Emmanuelle Arsan," later revealed to be the pen name of the Rollet-Andrianes.

Marayat also enjoyed a brief film career, appearing in "Forever Emmanuelle" (aka "Laure") (1976) and "The Sand Pebbles" (1966).

6.75 x 4.75 inches. One photograph Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn, one Very Good, with a horizontal crease and accompanying bruising on the bottom edge, and one Good only, with a curved closed tear on the right edge, repaired on the verso with cello tape. (Inventory #: 161317)