PLAY THIS LOVE WITH ME.
Tokyo: Keimeisha, n.d. [c. 1960]. Original yellow wrappers, printed in red. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Item #44113
189pp. A reprint, and possible piracy, of a novel originally published at Paris in 1955 as vol. 5 of The Olympia Press' Traveller's Companion series. Earl Kemp: Authors Pseudonyms One of the most clever novels published by the Olympia Press in the censorship-ridden 'fifties, under the obscure pseudonym of Willy Baron. Now that it comes out again under the author's real name, it becomes easier for us to appreciate the attraction of its imagery: Baird Bryant has since become one of our best off-beat film-makers and cameramen extraordinaires, having demonstrated his mastery i that area in the brilliant if somewhat shocking film about Harlem, THE COOL WORLD.Sharp satire and visual precision give PLAY THIS LOVE WITH ME its most enjoyable qualities. Baird Bryant has the evil eye, a marvellous facility for bringing out the fool in man. His highly improbable yarn takes us from a phantasmagoric demi-monde scene in Montparnasse to the glittering salons of a Parisian aristocracy such as Bunuel might have conceived.
Price: $10.00