P. L. (Pierre Louÿs) - Trois Filles de leur Mère. Aux dépens d'un amateur et pour ses amis, no date, around 1910. Rare unusual copy in first edition, published clandestinely. Very small edition and not put on the market, this is one of 200 numbered copies, copy No. 18. 202 pp., 25 x 19 cm Weight 1 kg (without packaging) Full leather binding, blank spine with 3 raised bands. Friction, wear and tear (nothing serious) on corners (dented) and borders; spine with wear and tear in head and tail (nothing serious); inside: a little apparent gutter, a few pages detached otherwise OK overall, many illustrations in colour and out of text. This highly pornographic work is a ‘true story in every detail’ featuring the loves of the narrator with three sisters (including a little girl) and a mother. Inspired by free relations between the author and the wife of Jose Maria de Heredia and her three daughters, it was written around 1910. André Pieyre de Mandiargues sees the archetype of the erotic kind. ‘Dès les premières pages de Trois filles de leur mère, on sent un écrivain de race. L'histoire est emportée jusqu'à son épilogue par un souffle mêlant deux sortes de fureurs que les païens mettaient sous l'invocation de Vénus et d'Apollon, la fureur érotique et la fureur poétique’. A rare copy.