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Fille de Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals & Some Royal Favorites
by Dorset Press
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1566193885
- ISBN 13
- 9781566193887
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Dorset Press, 1967. Cloth, 448 pages, illustrations (part colour), facsimiles; 34 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. 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.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.
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- Title
- Fille de Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals & Some Royal Favorites
- Author
- Dorset Press
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1566193885
- ISBN 13
- 9781566193887
- Publisher
- Dorset Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- Folio
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