Published by Book Club Associates, London, 1984
Seller: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Third printing thus. Brown cloth in fine condition with a near fine jacket showing just a touch of edgewear. Erotic escapades of Anne-Marie, recorded with liberites, and translated by Jane Purcell. 247 pp. Fiction, Memoirs, Erotic.
Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York:, 1974
ISBN 10: 088184098X ISBN 13: 9780881840988
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First American Edition. New York:: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1974. A beautiful copy. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. Jacket is NOT price clipped (13.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Bound in the original blue boards with a cream-color cloth spine, lettered in gilt. Translated from the French. Sequel to PLAISIR D'AMOUR. From the Dust Jacket: "To lie naked in crushed and rumpled sheets, to watch the early morning sunlight caress a sated, sleeping lover, to listen to the muted sounds of the world beyond the boudoir as a great city wakes to another day. This is Paris in the Twenties where passions fizz like champagne and intimate intrigues cast the heady spell of love in all its fascinating variations.". First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (vii), 261pp.
Published by Carrol & Graf, 1984
ISBN 10: 088184098X ISBN 13: 9780881840988
First Edition
Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st printing of this edition, 8vo hardcover in dust jacket, 262pp. Jazz Age erotica. Sequel to "Plaisir D'Amour." Very Good Plus, light rubbing & foxing, a few pp w/ ink marginalia; jacket w/ light foxing, rubbing & toning, a few small tears & creases. For mature, consenting audiences.
Published by W.H. Allen, 1984
ISBN 10: 0491033427 ISBN 13: 9780491033428
Seller: Rons Bookshop (Canberra, Australia), Canberra, ACT, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Anne-Marie Villefranche was a Parisienne with an acute eye for detail and a wicked sense of humour which makes her fictionalised accounts of her family and friends' intrigues all the more fascinating.On her death in 1980, her papers ere left in the hands of her grand-daughter, Jane Purcell, who has translated these 'petite memoires'. **The book has tanning and th jacket is price clipped.**.
Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 088184022X ISBN 13: 9780881840223
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jackets by Bob Carlos Clark (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated first edition of this new edition, first impressions. 'Plaisir' (pub 1983, 247pp), 'Joie' (pub 1983, 261pp), Both books have some edge wear and chipping to tops and bottoms of jackets and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, 'Plaisir' has some yellowing to jacket and grubby fingerprints to page block, neither are price clipped (no published prices), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg pair for their age. Erotic memoirs that recallsParisian society in the twenties and the sensuous life of amorous adventure. Anne-Marie Villefranche (1899-1980), was one of the most well known erotic novelists of the 1930s and 40s. Quite scarce books.