Author: KESSEL, JOSEPH; WAGNER, GEOFFREY (TRANS)
Title: Belle De Jour
Description: New York, U.S.A. St Martin's Press. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Originally published in French 1928 this is the first English translation it was made into a film starring Catherine Deneuve in 1967 and was the inspiration for Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Diary of a housewife whose vivid sadomasochistic fantasies drive her to seek employment at a brothel. By day, she enacts her customers' wildest fantasies under the pseudonym "Belle de Jour"; in the evenings, she returns home to her chaste marriage. Famous for its unflinching eroticism it offers an eye-opening glance into a unique female psyche. CONDITION Half bound in Blue cloth and Cream Janned Vellum with bright gilt title (clean and unworn) Black eps, Pp 181 printed on fine weave paper. Very bright and crisp, appears unread. Orignal DJ has light shelf wear to spine ends and tips, original sale price sticker to front, not price clipped, one short tear bottom rear and 2 tiny ones top rear. Fine/Near Fine.

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