199-2 - RÉAGE (Dominique Aury, pseudonym Pauline). *The Story of O*. Preface by Jean Paulhan. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954. One in-12 volume, half-calf with corner pieces, decorated spine, gilt head, cover intact

RÉAGE (Dominique Aury, pseudonym Pauline). *The Story of O*. Preface by Jean Paulhan. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954. One in-12 volume, half-calf with corner pieces, decorated spine, gilt head, cover intact Second printing of the first edition and the first to be made available to the public, published four months after the original. Printed in a run of 1,000 copies, all on laid paper (no. 356). “It is well known what difficulties the judicial investigation into this work—considered offensive to public morals—caused for the publisher and the author of the preface. The judge in charge of the case was unable 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). A fine copy.