Pauline Réage
Story of O, 1965
NY: Grove Press
First American edition.
135
Réage's novel of shadowy sexuality stirred contemporary critical discomfort, similar to that conjured by the works of Anaïs Nin, with the added mystery of the book's authorship. Forty years after...
Réage's novel of shadowy sexuality stirred contemporary critical discomfort, similar to that conjured by the works of Anaïs Nin, with the added mystery of the book's authorship. Forty years after the book's initial publication in France, the Anne Desclos came forward at its writer and stated that the basis for the work was a series of love letters to the critic Jean Paulhan (who, notably, contributed the Preface). Bound in black cloth over boards. Fine in a near fine dust wrapper showing minimal staining, given its blank whiteness.
