Romance, Love, Erotica, And Sex from Books of the World

New York: Little, Brown and Company, November 2010. First Edition, fourth printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Top front corner bumped. Two dog-eared pages. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 368 pages. The life of the most intriguing woman in the history of the… Read more about this item

Silver Spring, Maryland: Bartleby Press, June 2001. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Inscribed "Love begins in the kitchen!" and signed by the author on half-title page. A few dust spots to edges. xvi + 269 pages. 16 pages color plates. They know romance at L'Auberge Chez François. Nestled on a quiet back road in Great Falls, Virginia, this… Read more about this item

New York: The Bibliophilist Society, 1931. Hardcover. Illustrated end papers. Frontis and several plates. Very Good. Unmarked. Spine straight. Moderate wear and soiling to covers. Not from a library. xii + 322 pages. front. plates.

Philadelphia: Gebbie Publishing Co., 1899. Hardcover. Gray linen over boards, spine faded to a handsome beige. Crimson leather title band with gold lettering and border design; gilded top edge. Frontis and eight B&W plates. Very Good book / no jacket. No markings. Corners and spine ends bumped. Not from a library. Very handsome on the shelf. Two volumes in one.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Gebbie Publishing Co., 1899. Hardcover. Gray linen over boards, spine faded to a handsome beige. Crimson leather title band with gold lettering and border design; gilded top edge. Frontis and eight B&W plates. Very Good+ book / no jacket. No markings. Spine ends bumped. Not from a library. Very handsome on the shelf. Two volumes in one. Contents: Volume… Read more about this item

New York: New American Library / Signet, May 1960. Mass Market Paperback. 26th printing. Signet 451-E9647. $2.95. Very Good+. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight and tight with slight crease to lower half. Covers clean and bright. Corners sharp. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 446 pages.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, January 1998. Hardcover. First Edition (stated), second printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Light rubbing and edgewear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 216 pages. A novel of Cold War geopolitics and romance involves a young… Read more about this item

New York: HarperPerennial, April 1994. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine lightly curved but uncreased. Edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 1474 pages. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (1994). Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find—through love or through… Read more about this item

Pleasantville, New York: ImPress, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Unmarked. Half-title page has a small wrinkle. Spine straight and tight. Light wear to jacket at spine ends. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 360 pages. How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's, April 2001. Hardcover. First Edition, third printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, head bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 335 pages. When a renowned marriage specialist is publically humiliated by her straying husband, she fights back by… Read more about this item

New York: Three Rivers Press, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 273 pages.

New York: Vintage, June 2010. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with light reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 435 pages. It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Very Good. A few notes on first page, but text is unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 171+21 pages. The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generation. This… Read more about this item

New York: Anchor Books, June 2006. Trade Paperback. New. No remainder mark. Not damaged. v + 287 pages. A rapturous and uproarious collision of East and West, a novel about the dream of love and the love of dreams. Fresh from 11 years in Paris studying Freud, bookish Mr. Muo returns to China to spread the gospel of psychoanalysis.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, June 2020. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine Book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean. Corners bumped. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 461 pages. 1957, Clayton Valley, Ohio. Ellie has the best grades in her class. Her dream is to go… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, April 2020. Hardcover. First Edition, fifth printing. Fine book in an As New Cover. Spine tail lightly bumped, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. 178 pages.

New York: Bantam, September 1960. Mass Market Paperback. H2104. 11th printing. Good. Tanned. Text unmarked. Not from a library. 280 pages. A roman à clef loosely based upon the life of socialite and flapper Starr Faithfull, whose unsolved death in 1931 became a tabloid sensation. Made into a movie which won Elizabeth Taylor won her first Academy Award for… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1959. Mass market paperback. FG5. First unexpurgated version published in America. Very Good-. Unmarked. Lightly tanned. Spine creased and curved. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 384 pages. Lady Chatterly's Lover became notorious for its story of the physical and emotional relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman,… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Random House / Kathy Dawson Books, September 2017. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Very Good Jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Quarter inch tear to clean and bright jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 453 pages.

New York: Random House / Modern Library, 1946. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with gilt torchbearer and gilt titles in black rectangle on front cover and spine. Gray Kent Modern Library endpapers. Good book / no jacket. Notes and underlining in pencil. Rear hinge cracked. Spine straight and sound. Corners and ends frayed and bumped. Small hole in rear hinge.… Read more about this item