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189 - 189 [Jean PAULHAN, under the pseudonym] MAAST.
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189 [Jean PAULHAN, under the pseudonym] MAAST. -Seven Famous Cases. Paris, Fontaine, 1946 [cover dated 1945]. - Seven More Famous Cases. Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1947. 2 volumes, paperback. First editions. The first volume was published in the L’Age d’or series edited by Henri Parisot with a full-color cover illustrated by Mario Passinos. A single print run of 1,000 copies by Ghaldwill for the second volume, which is unnumbered. (Vignes, Bibliographie des éditions de Minuit, no. 61, for *Seven New Famous Cases*.) Precious autographed dedications: modestly signed, “To Madame / Dominique Aury / MAAST.” As soon as Justice / appeared in the world, a great /= Injustice / arose. / (Lao-Tzu) / For Dominique Aury / June 20, 1947, with friendship / Jean P. A provenance more intriguing than that of Dominique Aury, Jean Paulhan’s secret lover, another influential figure at Gallimard and soon-to-be author, under the pseudonym Pauline Réage, of *Histoire d’O*, which would be published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert a few years after these two volumes of *Causes célèbres*, with the success we all know—a literary success as much as a scandal.
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