Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First English Edition Translated by G.F. Monkshood. Spine faded.

Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Good Hard Cover First Colombian Edition Spanish translation of Mother's Three Daughters. Spanish text.

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Very Good Cloth First English Edition One of 925 copies on Kelmscott hand made paper. This copy not numbered. Pages uncut. Collection of erotic poetry by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925). The book's sensual poems are in the manner of Sappho; the introduction claims they were found on the walls of a tomb in Cyprus, written by a woman of Ancient Greece called Bilitis, a courtesan and contemporary of Sappho, to whose 'life' Louÿs dedicated a small section of his book. On publication, the volume deceived even the most expert of scholars. However, the poems were actually clever fabulations, authored by Louÿs himself, but are still considered important literature. Louÿs claimed the 143 prose poems, excluding 3 epitaphs, were entirely the work of this ancient poet - a place where she poured both her most intimate thoughts and most public actions, from childhood innocence in Pamphylia to the loneliness and chagrin of her later years. Although for the most part The Songs of Bilitis is original work, many of the poems in the collection were reworked epigrams from the Palatine Anthology, and Louÿs even borrowed some verses from Sappho herself. The poems themselves are a blend of mellow sensuality and polished style in the manner of the Parnassian school, but underneath run subtle Gallic undertones which Louÿs could never escape. To give authenticity to the forgery, Louÿs listed some poems as "untranslated" in the index; he even craftily fabricated an entire section of his book called "The Life of Bilitis

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Dutch Edition Dutch translation of La Femme et le Pantin.

As New 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Vinyl Record First Thus Audio recording of Pierre Louys classic manual for the sexual behaviour of young women from the Jérome Martineau edition of 1969. An Eric Losfeld production in French with music by Cadichon and the text read by Sophie and Dourakine. Unplayed. Rare.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Thus Limited to 1000 copies. Corners and edges rubbed.

New 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall No Jacket, as Issued Hard Cover First English Edition Young Antoinette, known as Toinon, is the precocious narrator of these memoirs from a select girl's boarding school. Toinon details the wild sexual experimentation that transpires nightly between herself, her seventeen co-boarders, and certain members of staff. This explicit hymn to lesbianism and sexual mania was among the final papers of Pierre Louys, the author famous for The She Devils. First and only English translation of this French erotic classic from the turn of the century by John Phillips. Hand numbered limited edition of 500 copies only.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Thus The She Devils tells of a mother and her three daughters, sharing their inexhaustible sexual favours between the same young man, each other, and anyone else who enters their web of depravity. From a chance encounter on the stairway with a voluptuous young girl, the narrator is drawn to become the play-thing of four rapacious females, experiencing them all in various combinations of increasingly wild debauchery, until they one day vanish as mysteriously as they had appeared. Described by Susan Sontang as one of the few works of the erotic imagination to deserve true literary status, The She Devils remains Pierre Louys most intense, claustrophobic work; a study of sexual obsession and monomania unsurpassed in its depictions of carnal excess, unbridled lust and limitless perversity.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback Second Printing The She Devils tells of a mother and her three daughters, sharing their inexhaustible sexual favours between the same young man, each other, and anyone else who enters their web of depravity. From a chance encounter on the stairway with a voluptuous young girl, the narrator is drawn to become the play-thing of four rapacious females, experiencing them all in various combinations of increasingly wild debauchery, until they one day vanish as mysteriously as they had appeared. Described by Susan Sontag as one of the few works of the erotic imagination to deserve true literary status, The She Devils remains Pierre Louys most intense, claustrophobic work; a study of sexual obsession and monomania unsurpassed in its depictions of carnal excess, unbridled lust and limitless perversity.

New 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall No Jacket, as Issued Hard Cover First English Edition SPECIAL OFFER FOR JULY ONLY! Young Antoinette, known as Toinon, is the precocious narrator of these memoirs from a select girl's boarding school. Toinon details the wild sexual experimentation that transpires nightly between herself, her seventeen co-boarders, and certain members of staff. This explicit hymn to lesbianism and sexual mania was among the final papers of Pierre Louys, the author famous for The She Devils. First and only English translation of this French erotic classic from the turn of the century by John Phillips. Hand numbered limited edition of 500 copies only.