Sade, D.A.F. de

LA NOUVELLE JUSTINE [Volume one only]

En Hollande [Paris]: 1797. First Edition. 18mo., 347 pages. In Good condition. Rebound in 20th century half brown leather with marbled paper boards. Paneled spine has gilt lettering and tooling with green label for title, title misspelled 'Justine' as 'Justinn.' Volume one only. This copy almost certainly washed. Title page through page 6 and page 339-end mounted on tabs. Lacking seven leaves plus six engravings, being the half-title page; pages i, ii, iij, iv, Editor's Notice, unpaginated sheet, frontispiece, and five of the ten engravings. Engravings tipped in at pages 82, 219, 209, 240, and 262. Scarce in any condition. Shelved case 3.

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Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $3,000

NOTES

BNF: Enfer 2507. Identifying a particular edition of Justine is a bibliographical challenge due to the complexity of the printing. The clandestine printing of publishers and printers through multiple countries and cities combined with seizures by the authorities led to a wide variety of reissues and reprints.

"La Nouvelle Justine" is one of Sade's most notorious books which he at times denied authorship of during his lifetime. This is only volume one of the original edition and is missing some of the original pages. Its alternate title is "Les Malheurs de la Vertu" and the second volume following this one is titled "L'Histoire de Juliette, Sa Soeur."