Les Cahiers de Colette. First editions. Signed. (Volumes specially printed for la princesse Edmond de Polignac, née Winnaretta Singer.)
Paris: Les Amis de Colette [Atelier de Daragnès] 1935-1936, 4to. 31 x 24 cm. 4 volumes. Original wraps and glassine. Very good. in-4, broché.
Copies uniformly numbered no. 11 of 175, printed for la princesse Edmond de Polignac, née Winnaretta Singer.
Collection complète contenant :
- N°1 : Clouk et Chéri, ornés de 6 eaux-fortes hors texte de Dignimont....
- N°2 : Notes marocaines et La Décapitée, ornés de 6 eaux-fortes hors texte de Daragnès....
- N°3 : En tournée et Music-Hall, ornés de 6 lithographies hors texte de Luc-Albert Moreau.....
- N°4 : Portraits et Paysages, ornés de 6 eaux-fortes hors texte de Dunoyer de Segonzac. ...Tirage à 175 exemplaires, tous signés par l'auteur, ceux-ci imprimé pour la princesse Edmond de Polignac....
Princesse Edmond de Polignac :
The Queen of Paris’s Lesbian Community!Winnaretta Singer had married Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard to gain access to Paris’s elite artistic circles, but everybody knew that she preferred the company of women. Not surprising, their marriage went unconsummated and was annulled in 1892. One year later, Winnaretta married Prince Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac, an aristocrat and amateur composer 30 years her senior. He was openly gay, and both had a deep passion for music. He died eight years after their marriage, and Winnaretta never remarried although she had plenty of affairs with married women. On one occasion, an enraged husband yelled up at Winnaretta’s apartment, “If you are half the man I think you are, you will come out here and fight me.”
Monod , nos. 2982-2985. Item #51-4102
Price: $1,600.00