Erotic Tales Tapa dura - 1993

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1993. Violet boards the titles in bright gilt to the spine.An unread copy perhaps there are no marks of any kind.Binding is tight.. First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. As New In Like D.J.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1993. 248pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain red boards nominally bumped. Leaves clean, slight tanning to edges. Art-illustrated ('Portrait of a Young Beauty' - detail - Guillaume Seignac, c. 1900) dustjacket negligibly edgeworn only. " . . . gathers together passionate and explicit writing about sex by writers of the first rank . . . " One of the earliest tales is from the notorious 'Les Liasons Dangereuses' written in 1782 by Chodelos de Laclos, to modern masters such as Philip Roth, and Mary McCarthy, who satirize American society and its sexual obsessions . . . Authors include: Daniel Defoe, John Cleland, Henry Fielding, Marquis de Sade, Emile Zola, Sir Richard Burton, Andrea Newman, Henry Miller, Erica Jong, D.H.Lawrence, and more. Book weight approx. 565g. . First Thus.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. New.
This anthology includes 17 examples of erotic prose. D.H. Lawrence celebrates Lady Chatterley's secret sexual passion. Philip Roth, in "Portnoy's Complaint", takes the same pleasure in the sexual merry-go-round as did Cleland in "Fanny Hill", writing in the 18th century.

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1993. 1st British Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. large Octavo. 1st printing. An unread book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.