Cruel Lips by VAN HELLER , Marcus - 1956

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1960. Venus Library V-1039-T. Paperback. pp. 186. Small 8vo. Illustrated card covers, slight creasing to spine, contents remain clean and unmarked; very good+. "When Roger Hartnell picked up the good-looking girl at the bar he thought he had her made...

New York: Ophelia Press, 1971. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 183pp+ads. No. 254 in the Ophelia Press series. A reprint, originally published at Paris in 1956 by The Olympia Press as vol. 30 of their Traveller's Companion series. From back cover, "A vintage Marcus van Heller in which the master of sado-masochistic literature reveals to us his intimate knowledge of the London underworld(to which he is known to have belonged). The incredible toughness of the local hoods, who dominate their territory by sheer terror and inhuman brutality, gives van Heller the subject of his most interesting novel---a tale of cruelty and subjection without precedent.." OPH254.

San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1971. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 176pp.+ads. A reprint originally published at Paris in 1956 by The Olympia Press as vol. 30 of their Traveller's Companion series. Explicit erotic novel. Marcus van Heller, author of such world-famous classics as Kidnap, The House of Borgia, and Roman Orgy, now sets his sights on the vicious traffic in black-market drugs and the innocent lives ruined by lust and greed. Cruel Lips is the startling expose of the seamy side of London which tourists and royalty seldom ever see a dead end where love is sold on street corners and death is commonplace. This is a work of extraordinary power by one of England's best-known writers.. PC1014.

New York: Grove Press, nd. First printing. Softcover. Very good. Venus Library V-1039-T. 186 p. 18 cm. Paperback. Light wear.

The Olympia Press Traveller's Companion #48, no date. paperback. very good condition in wraps.

North Hollywood, CA: Brandon House, 1967. 1st Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Brandon House # 2040. Fine first printing. Paperback original. Binding square and tight. Pages clean. No tears or creases to wraps. Appears unread.