274 - RÉAGE (Dominique Aury, pseudonym Pauline). *The Story of O*. Preface by Jean Paulhan. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954. A 12mo volume, full parma-colored cloth binding with a smooth spine bearing the title in gold lettering and a gold-stamped phallic motif, covers intact. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy.

RÉAGE (Dominique Aury, pseudonym Pauline). *The Story of O*. Preface by Jean Paulhan. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954. A 12mo volume, full parma-colored cloth binding with a smooth spine bearing the title in gold lettering and a gold-stamped phallic motif, covers intact. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy. First edition printed in a run of 600 non-commercial copies. One of the 480 copies printed on laid paper (no. 263). “It is well known what legal troubles the judicial investigation into this work—considered an affront to public decency—brought upon the publisher and the author of the preface. The judge in charge of the case was only able to obtain from Paulhan—who had served as an intermediary between the author and Mr. Pauvert—the address or true identity of Mrs. or Miss Pauline Réage. In the end, there was no trial, but the case was not definitively closed until 1959” (Pia, 634–635).