THE COUPLES BOOK.
San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1971. Digest-sized pictorial wrappers. Light shelfwear. Very Good.
Item #114265
216pp. + ads. Illustrated throughout with sexually-explicit black-and-white and color photographs. Introduction by L.J. Kitt, M.D. Foreword by John Malcom, Ph.D. An interesting juxtaposition of contemporary pornographic photos (c. 1971) with works of classic erotic literature. Works include anonymous writings (The Pleasures of Love, An English Ballad, Then Lose in Time, Thy Maidenhead, etc). An excerpt from The Ramayana. A selection from The Greek Anthology. Plus, works by Joseph Addison, Charles Baudelaire, Aphra Behn, Catullus, C.P. Cavafy, Richard Crashaw, Jean de la Fontaine, Robert Herrick, Juvenal, Stephane Mallarme, Martial, Rana Mukerji, Pablo Neruda, Ovid, Petronius, Alexander Pushkin, William Shakespeare, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Tennyson, Paul Verlaine, Francois Villon, John Wilmot, William Butler Yeats, and more. GP591.
Price: $150.00