Mademoiselle De Maupin A Romance: Double Love; Illustrations by Clara Tice

Np: The Pierre Louys Society, 1927. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth spine lettered in gilt and front cover in brocade gilt and black. Fine. 407 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 881 of 1250. The twelve color plates by Tice with tissue guards exceptionally bright and clean as is the text. Wide text margins, decorated risqué endpapers. This work by Theophie express his views, which caused a considerable stir in literary circles by their disregard of conventional morality. Tice, nicknamed “Queen of Greenwich Village”, was a prominent artist and personality in the Manhattan Bohemian scene of the 1920s. . (Inventory #: 24285)