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[GRASSAL, GEORGES] JEAN DE VILLIOT. BLACK LUST.
New York: Panurge Press, 1931. 8vo, 312pp. Tan cloth, lettered and decorated in black, ex libris, cloth moderately darkened and soiled, otherwise very good. ¶ First American Edition, new 'translation' by Lawrence Ecker (Esar Levine?), of A Woman and Her Master published by Carrington in 1904, and translated from the original French by Marius Boisson. The present edition is based upon the Carrington text but has toned down the excessive scenes of flagellation of the original, a story of an Englishwoman captured by dervish marauders during the sack of Khartoum by the Mahdi. Of note is that the present volume, along with four others from Levine's Panurge Press including Crossways of Sex by Dr. Jacobus X, were involved in obscenity litigation due to the 'obscene' circulars Levine had mailed out advertising the books in question, which were sexological or erotica-lite in content. Cf. Mendes p.356.
Offered for US$ 20.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 1122.