CENT PHOTOGRAPHIES EROTIQUES. 1979. UNNUMBERED COPY.

Paris: Images Obliques, 1979

22 x 14cm, 112pp plus cloth covered boards with foil stamping. Published soon after the death of the surrealist, transvestite photographer and painter who, on deciding his life was no longer worth living, placed a note on the door of his flat before shooting himself: It read: “;I am dead. The key is with the concierge.”

The book consists of 100 b/w reproductions of Molinier’s erotic and wholly believable self-portraits as a woman (occasionally with real women and female adult puppets as props). An unnumbered copy aside from the first edition of 43 copies (33 + 10 du tete). There is an handwritten dedication by a previous owner at the half-title but this is otherwise a very good copy of an elusive and desirable title.