La Cafarde. by BONA.

Tall 8vo (204 × 110 mm), pp. 57, [5]. Original printed yellow laid paper wrappers. Covers very slightly rubbed and soiled but still very good.

First edition (after the few grand papiers copies issued simultaneously) of Bona’s surrealist were/she-wolf novella, inscribed: ‘à Jacqueline Piatier en sincère hommage Bona de Mandiargues’ (Piatier was a critic for Le Monde and founder of its supplement Le Monde des livres in 1967). The cover reproduces a detail from Michael’s Maier’s alchemical emblem book Atalanta Maier (1617).