Venus in Furs
New York: Sylvan Press, 1947. Hardcover. Black leather boards with lime green lettering and illustrations; mylar protective dust jacket; frontispiece of "Venus with a Mirror" by Titian; a numbered large paper edition - 121 of 1499 copies; 140 pp. VG (mylar protective dust jacket, nameplate from previous owner inside front cover, age toning throughout textblock, all pages clear and intact, in excellent condition considering the book's age). Item #181335
"'Masochism' is derived from the name of our author, Sacher-Masoch, and Venus in Furs is the classic novel that describes this strange and morbid manifestation of love. Those intersted in abnormal psychologywill know this as a 'must' book that has been long out of print and unavailable in English. But even the most casual reader cannot avoid being at once dascinated and repelled by the graphic description of morbid yearnings never satisfied despite beatings, humiliations and tortures to soul and body. Titian's 'Venus With a Mirror' which is our frontispiece, referred to throughout the book as in the Dresden Museum, is not in the US National Gallery of Art, Mellon Collection." - dust jacker description.
OCLC: 1162055
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