9781566193887 - Fille De Joie the Book of Courtesans Spo (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. NO DUST JACKET. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY!; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Remainder mark. Near fine book and jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Cloth, 448 pages, illustrations (part colour), facsimiles; 34 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Profusely illustrated. *** History of prostitution. *** 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 Boccaccio; Advice from the Kama Sutra, by Vatsyayana; Enterprise; Two stories: The False gems; The Signal, by Guy de Maupassant; Stradella, by James Sherwood; Arrangements; Entrance fee, by Alexander Woollcott; Closing night in Rome, by George St. George; Maisons; Prizes for girls, by Frank Harris; A courtesan of Alexandria, by Pierre Louy s; In the floating world, by Iharu Saikaku; This indolence of mine, by Italo Svevo; Royal mistresses; Maidenhead, by The Marquis de Sade; Hsi men and the sixth Wang, by Anonymous; College Joe, by Robert Gover; The pros of Paris, by Sam Boal; Madams; New York madam, by Polly Adler; For the first time, by Theodore Pratt; London today, by John Gosling and Douglas Warner; Company, girls!, by Herbert Asbury Street scenes;Tokyo after dark, by William Fitzpatrick; The education of a courtesan, by Lucian; Gringos, by Michael Rumaker; Four filles de Paris, by Henry Miller. Size: Folio.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated, Presumed First Edition. 448 pages. Gold lettering on the spine, embossed rose on the front cover. Edges very lightly bumped and scuffed. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart. A very good copy of this book with 371 illustrations and a varied collection of writings on the subject. This is a very heavy book and will require additional shipping charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardback book (448 pages)illustrated with 371 photographs/reproductions/drawings. Dust jacket shows light rubbing/scuffing. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CHARGE. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-9-Top) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 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).

Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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 throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. Licensed brothels became an important source of revenue for the state. In recent generations, strenuous efforts have been made to obliterate the institution, but no amount of suppression has ever managed to accomplish this -- which is perhaps not so surprising considering that the suppressors and the clients often are the same. The literature is vast and rich, but no book like this one exists. Never has there been a collection of writings on the subject with such variety, range, and fascinating fact. Here you will find side-by- side Lucian's second-century The Education of a Courtesan, Nell Kimball's nineteenth-century account of brothel life in New Orleans, Harold Greenwald's story, The Life of a Call Girl, showing how the telephone has changed the profession, and then, from 300 AD India, Advice from the Kama Sutra. Works of fiction include Casanova's My Short and Lively Stay in Ancona, John Cleland's The Mysteries of Venus from Fanny Hill, two Maupassant stories, The False Gems and The Signal, Pierre Louys's enchanting The Courtesan of Alexandria, a selection from Sade's novel Juliette, and stories of four filles de Paris by Henry Miller. There are 371 illustrations comprising the largest and best collection of pictures ever for a book. Large heavy book that may incur additional charges for shipping to most locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing, First Edition Thus. 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.).

Hardcover. Originally published by Grove Press in 1967. 4to. 448pp. Illustrated. Light foxed patches to first and last few pages, V.g. in dustwrapper with sunned patch on rear and small scuff head of spine. Heavy book may require extra postage for overseas order.

Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Unknowen (illustrator). Not Stated. Not Stated ( 1967 ) , Brown cloth hardcover in the dust jacket , 448 page book with 371 black & white illustrations . Printing / Publishers Err 24 pages are up-side down . Condition : Very Fine Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Near fine hardback copyright 1966; NF in New dj; B-11-LR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition Book in very good condition. Foxing inside front board and to initial pages. Contents tanned on extreme outer edges. Mild creasing to base spine Wrapper in very good condition. Nicked on top of spine and rubbing to extreme tip of top corner Very heavy book which would cost a considerable amount to post outside UK.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Thus. This bookwas originally published in 1967 and this is a promotional reprint of it. This copy is in mint shape. It is a fascinating book about the history of prostitution all over the world throughout the ages, focusing on stories by New Orleans madams, 18th century memoirs, and others from everywhere and every time. There are over 350 photographs and drawings in it.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 371 illustrations comprising the largest and best collection of pictures ever for a book. Large heavy book that may incur additional charges for shipping to most locations. « 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 throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. Licensed brothels became an important source of revenue for the state. In recent generations, strenuous efforts have been made to obliterate the institution, but no amount of suppression has ever managed to accomplish this -- which is perhaps not so surprising considering that the suppressors and the clients often are the same. The literature is vast and rich, but no book like this one exists. Never has there been a collection of writings on the subject with such variety, range, and fascinating fact. Here you will find side-by- side Lucian's second-century The Education of a Courtesan, Nell Kimball's nineteenth-century account of brothel life in New Orleans, Harold Greenwald's story, The Life of a Call Girl, showing how the telephone has changed the profession, and then, from 300 AD India, Advice from the Kama Sutra. Works of fiction include Casanova's My Short and Lively Stay in Ancona, John Cleland's The Mysteries of Venus from Fanny Hill, two Maupassant stories, The False Gems and The Signal, Pierre Louys's enchanting The Courtesan of Alexandria, a selection from Sade's novel Juliette, and stories of four filles de Paris by Henry Miller.».