My Mother by Bataille, Georges; Wainhouse, Austryn Trans - 1972

GB: Cape, 1972. Pale green card with cape logo lettered in black. Clean tight copy but covers bit worn and spotted. . 1st Edition. Paperback. VG-. Uncorrected Proof.

London: Cape, 1972 (500 gram rate) first english translation / publication of Ma Mere. DW design by Bill Botten. all four corners of the DW fold ins are clipped at tips (as published?). 137pp, closed edges lightly soiled. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. 1st UK edition. Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very Good. 8vo. pp. [ii]+136. First published at Paris in 1966 by J.-J. Pauvert. "My Mother explores the relationship, at once destructive and passionate, between a mother and the son she corrupts. Following the death of his father, Pierre, age seventeen, is shown the truth about the mother he worships, and thus about himself; they share an insatiable desire for depravity. Together mother and son embark on an orgy of drinking and debauchery, sharing the same women, the same excesses and ecstasies of shame. The moral decline--so compulsively sought--leads to madness and death." Wonderful stuff. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney, with his small name sticker at the bottom of the front pastedown.