MARCEL JOUHANDEAU.
- Secret Museum. [Alès, PAB, 1968].
6 volumes in-12, in sheets, ornamented covers filled : in a box by Pierre Mercier.
First edition : limited edition at 47 copies (n° 11).
Complete collection of the six volumes of Marcel Jouhandeau's Secret Museum: published anonymously from March to December 1968.
It includes: Le Jardin des Hespérides; Chat et Cactus; L'Homme; le Boulanger; Mon carnet de bal and Poèmes sotadiques.
Marcel Jouhandeau wanted to preserve the anonymity for the publication of these homosexual confessions.
The whole is preserved as published in a box of Pierre Mercier.
(Dutel, Bibliographie des ouvrages érotiques publiés clandestinely en français entre 1920 et 1970, n° 2022).