POMERAND, Gabriel. Considérations Objectives sur la Pédérastie. Paris: Aux Dépens du Public. 1949.
8vo. Soft cream covers lettered in black to front cover; pp. unpaginated; water damage to covers but internally free from staining, toning to textblock; very good.
The lecture that was banned by the Prefect of Police with an inscription from Pomerand.
Published here for the first time, this is the lecture that Gabriel Pomerand intended to deliver in 1949 before it was banned by the Prefect of Police. It is one of the few things Pomerand released during his own lifetime. It has exceptional provocative intensity that is reminiscent of Arthur Cravan, of whom he is one of his worthy successors.
This copy includes a rare inscription from Pomerand to the French poet Marcel Béalu. Pomerand loved quotations so much that he would eventually publish an entire anthology of them in 1962. In his inscription, Jules Renard’s definition of a woman appears: “La femme est un bel animal sans fourrure dont la peau est très recherchée” [Woman is a beautiful animal without fur, whose skin is greatly prized].
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