Fille Joie Book Courtesans (66 results)

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

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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: Good.

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

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

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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Unclipped dust jacket. A very clean and tight copy with no marks or inscriptions. Heavy/oversize book may require additional postage. PayPal accepted.

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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original brown cloth. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

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: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original violet cloth. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Original brown cloth. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. From the library of author and book designer, producer, and editor Marshall Lee. The following note was written on the book and was left indented on the dust Jacket: "Marshall/ Please advise if this is on your copies/ Frank.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. Cloth tear at top of spine. Jacket has tears, scratches on front else VG. Original price present on DJ. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" f.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Brown Cloth Hardback. Condition: Fine - Bright. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust Jacket. First Edition (NAP). A large format book of 448 pages. Well made and documented history with lots of photography and drawings . etc. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

First printing (as stated upon copyright page). 448 pages. Hardcover: H 33.75cm x L 24.75cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Purple cloth rubbed; light staining to spine heel; gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Foxing to text block edges. Staining to front and rear pastedowns; a few spots of soiling at margins but interior pages overall remain clean. Binding is firm. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.75 pounds (2.6 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. 17 color & 354 b/w Photos (illustrator). First Edition. Original purple cloth stamped in gilt (slight fading to spine and edges; discoloration to pastedowns from adhesives). 448 pages. Pictorial and literary history of prostitution; contributors include Boccaccio, F rank Harris, Maupassant, Henry Miller, et al. Size: Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. Book.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Protective cover). Various (illustrator). Cover is in good condition, save for splitting at spine (upper 1/4, front cover). DJ is clipped and in good condition, save for rubbing and chipping (largely to corners, but some at edges of back cover). Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Due to the size of this book, additional shipping charges may apply. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. 10 x 14 in. Lavender cloth boards. Lavish B&W plates. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners a bit worn, tear at spine head, covers unevenly sunned. BInding tight and text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; edges chipped, overall rubbed, loss to spine head. Erotica. Stax.

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.

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: Very Good. 1st Edition. NYC: Grove, 1967. 1st edition, NF/VG. Book has somewhat loose front hinge, wear & some light fading to spine ends, corners and edges. DJ is price-clipped, wear & some tearing to spine ends and corners, closed tear on upper rear panel. 354 b & w illustrations (mostly photos), and 17 color plates. 10 sections of picture essays. 37 stories, essays memoirs by many famous (and infamous) authors: Frank Harris, Boccaccio, Marquis de Sade, Robert Gover, Kshemendra, Iharu Saikaku, de Maupassant, John Cleland and, of course, 24 pp. by Henry Miller. Grove Press couldn't publish these kinds of books fast enough after the Obscenity Laws were breached in the early 1960s. Rdn16.