Lafnet, Luc ; Guérin, Raoul ; Fossey, Pierre
DORNANO, Lucio 6 vol. of erotic poems including "Messes païennes". In-12 and in-16. Br. in 2 amateur half-gray cloth slipcases with black title-pieces. Good condition. A rare set of works by this obscure, erotic and anti-religious poet and chansonnier of Corsican origin, based in Montmartre. Contains: 1. Messes païennes (1922-1928). [Paris, La Muse rouge, 1922-1928]. [2]-69 hand-figured ff.: title, vignette and 69 sonnets cut out and pasted on cream vellum ff. Covered in amateur brown marbled paper. Factitious collection of pre-publications (1st complete ed.: 1928) of sonnets taken from the anarcho-communist journal "Nos Chansons". - 2. some new pagan masses. Paris, Les Extraits littéraires, (1935). Illustrated drypoint portrait by Luc Lafnet. Preface by Maurice Peyssou dated March 1928. Enriched with 2 ff. of poems. - 3 La fête au village. Paris-Montmartre, Les Chansons de la Butte (imp. Girard & Bunino, 1925). Original edition illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations by Raoul Guérin. 1/300 (of 500) on Bulky laid paper (no. 367). Enriched on the bl. flyleaf with an autograph poem by the author and 2 caricatures by Pierre Fossey and R. Guérin, all three signed and sent to René Faist. - 4 Trois ballades de la faune humaine [...] illustrated by H. Schick. Ibid, Éd. Girard & Bunino, (1926). Cover ill. ed. Edition announced at 200 copies on Arches vellum (num. "335" by hand!). - 5. pagan masses. La divine orgie. Triptych [...] followed by a critical study by Maurice Peyssou. Ibid, Les Extraits littéraires (imp. Girard & Bunino, 1927). Publisher's cover, decorated with erotic in-texts and a portr. by L. Lafnet. 1/1000 (of 1050) on Arches vellum (no. 903). Enriched with: aut. s. dispatch from the author to R. Faist,- 3 mss. ff. of poems including 1 aut. s. from the author (2/02/1929),- 1 illustrated poem from the review "Le Sourire". - 6. 3 unpublished poems [...]. Paris, Les amis de Dornano, [c. 1949]. 1 fol. in publisher's cover. Enriched with an aut. s. poem "L.D. 49" dedicated to "René-Claude". Ref. BnF. - Not in Pia, Dutel.
