CHAS-LABORDE. - MAC ORLAN (Pierre). Sentimental Inflation. Paris : La Renaissance du livre, 1922 [1923]. - In-4, 281 x 222: 87 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover. Red half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Ed. Klein). Original edition of this collection of narrative poems tinged with eroticism, printed in only 140 copies. "In L'Inflation sentimentale, Mac Orlan sings of the heavy and scattered disorder of the times, the hints of crowds, the sweat of girls in make-up, the blue-crested streetcars; he brings out a one-eyed hotel sensuality, unavowed and latent, with its professional perfumes and customary fevers, a new poetry, which shows his belly, with the metallic fingers of a courtesan typist in the daytime, mistress of a love worked like a clock, a metallic bridge, a dynamo, but perfumed with bad desires. For it is a new figure of the world that Pierre Mac Orlan is trying to bring out, this face of an industrial and amorous world, the fruit of the loves of the engineer and Léa" (Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie française, 1924, p. 329). The much sought-after edition is illustrated with 21 watercolours by CHAS LABORDE (1886-1941), reproduced in full-page intaglio and enhanced in colour. The title bears the year 1922, but the finished print is dated April 5, 1923, one of the 15 copies on imperial japan, second paper after 5 on old japan . Very well bound by Klein, perfectly preserved.