Fille De Joie the Book of Courtesans Spo Tapa dura - 1966

Dorset House Publishing Co Inc, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dorset House Publishing Co Inc, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dorset House Publishing Co Inc, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dorset House Publishing Co Inc, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Remainder mark. Near fine book and jacket..

Dorset House Publishing Co Inc , January 1966. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Dorset Press, 1967. Cloth, 448 pages, illustrations (part colour), facsimiles; 34 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Gone are the days, by Nell Kimball; My short and lively stay in Ancona, by Giacomo Casanova; Galerie Fille de Joie; Nymphets of Naples, by Anonymous; The grotto for demigods, by Li Yu ; New York call girl, by Virginia McManus; Masques A French mistress, by Frank Harris; The mysteries of Venus, by John Cleland; Los Angeles sporting girl, by Pearl Thompson; Curiosa; Juarez, by Lois O'Connor; Mama and the Mammy-freak, by Nelson Algren; How the Grand Vizir's wife became a harlot, by Sheik Nefzawi; From My secret life, by Anonymous; The rise and fall of a harlot, by Kshemendra; The life of the call girl, by Harold Greenwald; Bangkok: a guidebook; Harems and baths; The Sicilian woman and the Florentine, by Giovanni… Leer más

Dorset House Publishing Co Inc. Hardcover. 1566193885 1st Edition 1967 Book is in very good condition, missing dustcover. Customer service is our #1 priority. We sell great books at great prices with super fast shipping. . Very Good.

Dorset Press, New York, 1967 An exceptional copy, book as-new, dustcover fine. First edition thus. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, blind-stamped front board, 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, 448 pp., heavily illustrated. A beautiful copy of a beautiful, high-quality book. (1722RO070). 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine.

New York: Dorset Press - A Division of Marboro Books Corporation, 1967. Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 9 3/4" x 12 3/4. 448 Pages. Brown boards with gold lettering on the spine. Tight book with no bumped corners marks or stamps Interior text pages are flawless.Dust jacket has light chipping to edges. Fille de joie, lady of the evening, lady of pleasure is seen variously as mysterious, remote, and incredibly sinful; desirable, magnetic and repellent. The one undeniable fact about her is that she has plied her trade in all times, wherever there have been men. If ever an institution has shown popularity and universality it has been this one. Nor has the fille de joie al ways been scorned by society. In the ancient world she was often involved in religious rites, and in Eastern lands her profession was an integral part of the society. From the classical Greeks we have legends of brilliant, accomplished, and esteemed courtesans. Despite stricter regulation in later centuries, the profession flourished… Leer más

New York: Dorset Press, 1967. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A large-format,448-page collection of magazine articles, short fiction, photographs and art on the oldest profession from around the world over three centuries. Writers include Frank Harris, Henry Miller, Nelson Algren, James Sherwood, Robert Gover and the Marquis de Sade as well as call girls Virginia McManus and Pearl Thompson and madams Nell Kimball and Polly Adler. Art work by Atget, Hogarth, Holbein, George Grosz, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, and Pascin among others. 9 3/4 x 13 inches, 371 black & white reproductions and illustrations on heavy stock. Bottom of spine lightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only minor edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A generous sampling of brothels and bad girls. (Standard shipping only. Sorry, we can't accept orders for this book from outside the U.S.)