Publicado por Olympia Press, Paris, 1954
Librería: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, Francia
Paperback. Condición: Good. Paperback Octavo. wraps with flaps, 575 pp, spine sunned and chipped at the ends, edges foxed Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Publicado por The Olympia Press, Paris, 1962
Librería: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: USED_NEARFINE. Three volumes. Green printed wrappers, 16mo., 191, (1); 203, (1); 223, (1) pages. Traveller's Companion No. 50. Vols. 1 & 2 are 1962 editions; Vol. 3 is 1957 edition. Small attractive Dutch bookplates in each volume, minimal and very sllght edgewear, but clean, unread, near fine copies in archival mylar.
Publicado por Olympia Press, Paris, France, 1954
Librería: Hang Fire Books, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Salmon wraps folded around plain paper covers. "This present translation.is the first complete and integral rendering to be presented in English, and follows Justine and The Bedroom Philosophers in the uniform edition of the MDS' complete works published by The Olympia Press. This edition, printed on India paper is complete in one volume." First edition thus (all points confirmed with THE PARIS OLYMPIA PRESS by Patrick Kearney. Binding solid. Exterior salmon wraps are dusted with some rubbing and wear at edge. S cpl small nicks have been professionally closed from the inside. Adhesive that held outer salmon wraps to book book appears to have given out allowing for the wraps to be removed. Wrpas show some toning to spine and shirt splits to corners. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Erotica & Sexuality ; Inventory No: 030795.
Publicado por The Olympia Press, Paris, 1954
Librería: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1954. First Edition. 16mo (7" x 5"); [xi], 12-575pp. Salmon dust jacket folded over plain white wraps. Printed on India paper. Covers rubbed along edges with shallow chips / tears at spine ends, some creasing to back, and a nickel-sized abrasion to top front corner, presumably from prior sticker removal. Gaps visible at hinges, but glue between spine and text block is holding soundly. Corner-creasing to first few pages with various lighter creases to thin paper throughout, but pages unmarked and generally crisp. Binding is sound. First English-language translation of de Sade's unfinished erotic / pornographic novel, written in secret while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. The Olympia Press also issued a two-volume edition the same month. Bibliographer Patrick Kearney notes an Olympia catalogue claiming the two-volume edition was a limited printing, though any limitations are unknown, and speculates the two editions were intended for different markets, with "the one-volume edition on thin India paper for easier smuggling into England and the United States, and the.two-volume edition on heavy wove paper a relatively small printing struck off for domestic consumption in France" (Kearney p39). [Kearney 1.9.1].