"Tiré à très petit nombre et non mis dans le commerce."

Facsimile of Louÿs's ms.

Imprint from Kearney.

"The first edition of Trois filles de leur mère was printed on paper watermarked with the author's name spelled backwards - "Syuol Erreip." A short while afterwards, a contrafaçon was struck off, identical in all respects to the true first except that it lacked this watermark. Who was responsible for this piracy is unknown, and even the claim that Bonnel and Pia did the first is speculation; G. Legman, in a letter to the compiler dated November 2 1987, wrote that he believed the original edition to have been 'done by a bookseller on the Seine quais in Paris'"--Kearney.

Kearney, Patrick J. Bibliography of the erotic works of Pierre Louÿs (online bibliography), no. 28A.