Description: LITERARY AND EXTRA-LITERARY SYNTHESES, by GUS BOFA (Charles Blanchot). Presented by Roland Dorgeles.Featuring early erotic artwork of Gus Bofa depicting famous authors of his time, including greats such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anatole France, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, and many others! Full color pages, printed on luxurious, archival quality paper. Muslin endpages. Bound in the softest Moroccan leather in olive color. The book has an ADDITIONAL protective cover, with the same, olive-colored leather outside and muslin inside, encircling the leather-bound book. The whole thing then fits into a hard slipcase cover. Limited, Numbered 471 of 1100 Limited Edition Prints. ABOUT THE AUTHORGus Bofa (born Charles Blanchot) (23 May 1883 in Brive-la-Gaillarde – 1 September 1968) was a French illustrator, known for his work on satirical newspapers and erotic novels. Son of Colonel Charles Blanchot (1834-1918), of whom he was the 11th and penultimate child, he spent his childhood in Bordeaux then moved to Paris (his father was appointed military commander of the Senate) where he enrolled at the Lycée Henri -IV, establishment where he met André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Maurice Constantin-Weyer who would remain his closest friends. It was at the early age of five that he invented his artist name, Gus Bofa.After a few years as an engineer, he launched into posters and took part in Le Rire, then Le Sourire and La Petite Sirène . He also designs costumes and sets for the theatre. During the First World War he composed the covers of the magazine La Baïonnette . Between the wars, he collaborated with the monthly Le Crapouillot .His friend Pierre Mac Orlan said of him: “Gus Bofa is above all a writer who chose drawing to achieve his goals. A text by Bofa, a drawing by Bofa are constructed from the same material and both are animated by the same ray of humorous poetry that includes everything that holds a place between life and death. »He was destined for a military career but gave it up when he entered the Saint-Cyr competition . To earn a little money, he began, in 1900, to sell drawings to illustrated newspapers such as Le Sourire, Le Rire or La Risette .After his military service, and a few office jobs without interest, he created, around 1906, the Gus-Bofa Posters. On the strength of his success as a poster designer, he wrote stories for the press, reviews for the music hall and wrote the theatrical column for Le Rire then Le Sourire, newspapers which he briefly edited and where he had Pierre Mac Orlan debut.Very seriously wounded in the legs in December 1914 during the fighting at Bois-le-Prêtre, he refused to be amputated and, from his hospital bed, sent drawings to La Baïonnette .In the aftermath of this war, which left him crippled, he began, pushed by Mac Orlan, a career as an illustrator of luxury books. He thus portrays Mac Orlan, Courteline, Swift, Voltaire, De Quincey, Cervantès or Octave Mirbeau . At the same time, he published personal albums such as The Book of the Hundred Years War or Chez les toubibs .Founder and director of the Salon de l'A raignée, which wants to give freedom to designers and push them to a more personal art, Bofa also takes care of the literary column of Crapouillot, a literary and artistic magazine, which he will hold until 1939.With the 1930s, his work took on an increasingly personal and haunted turn. Malaises describes existential angst and The Symphony of Fear proposes fear as the motor of human history. Zoo presents man as a denatured animal. Check out my other items if you are looking for rare, collectible, antiquarian and vintage books, souvenirs, Crystalware, and much more! Shipping is free to continental United States via Media Mail. International buyers, please ask for a quote before making an offer or purchasing. If you are dissatisfied with your purchase for any reason, please contact me first directly, and I will do all in my power to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase. Happy Buying!
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Fine Binding with Slipcase
Personalised: No
Place of Publication: France
Signed: No
Publisher: One Horse Press
Subject: Pornography
Original/Facsimile: Original
Format: Hardback
Language: French
Illustrator: N/A
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition, Illuminated, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition, Miniature, Numbered, Book Club Edition
Author: Gus Bofa
Region: Europe
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Topic: History
Character Family: Dostoevsky
