Schroeder-Devient / Pol Vexio - Mémoires d'une chanteuse [Édition clandestine] - 1947

Superb illustrated edition of the most famous book in German erotic literature.
Underground edition published at a false address, mentioned "To the Three Hundred Disciples of Asclepius".
Memoirs of a Singer, translated from the German of Wilhelmine Schroeder-Devrient by Guillaume Apollinaire and prefaced by the latter. The text is illustrated with 15 original erotic engravings by Pol Vexio, (pseud.) in two states.
Limited edition of 300 copies, all on Vélin de Rives, this one of the 279 copies containing a finalized state of the engravings in the text and a rejected suite, on the same paper (no. 80).
Attached is a booklet of the subscription bulletin for the Circle of the Precious Book (from another edition), stapled in a narrow in-8, about ten unpaginated sheets and mostly adorned with medallion headings and two-tone reproductions of engravings (pink and black), as well as two facsimile letters framed in pink.
In sheets, with a titled padded cover, box and case silent.
S.L., To the Three Hundred Disciples of Asclepius, 1947.
In-8 (29x24 cm).
230 pages.