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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. First edition thus. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2"), saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1405, first noted printing, in the first wrapper state.

De Sade's text, written while he was incarcerated at Chateau de Vincennes, and here translated into English by the author of Paris Was Our Mistress. The translation first appeared in the U.S. under the Covici imprint two years prior, in an overwrought binding. This pocket edition that followed two years later is superb, a little Sade in the pocket.

Wraps rather faded and rubbed at extremities, with the name of the prior owner written in ink at title page and other wear, else very good. Item #30561

Price: $25.00