Justine by the Marquis de Sade

£125.00

SADE, Marquis de. Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised. Paris, The Olympia Press (The Traveller’s Companion Series, n. 67), 1959.

Olympia Press re-issue of the Marquis de Sade’s libertine novel, the first unexpurgated English edition by Austryn Wainhouse.

The book follows Justine, a twelve-year-old maiden, and her sexual misadventures in pre-revolutionary France. The first version was written in 1787 over two weeks, while de Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille. An expanded edition was published in 1791, marking Sade’s first published work. Justine was first published by the Olympia Press in 1953. The English translation is by Austryn Wainhouse, who used the pseudonym Pieralessandro Casavini.

Octavo, pp. 330, [2 (blank)], [2]; very good; original green and white wrappers printed in black (endpapers a little soiled, a large crease to rear wrapper).

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SADE, Marquis de. Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised. Paris, The Olympia Press (The Traveller’s Companion Series, n. 67), 1959.

Olympia Press re-issue of the Marquis de Sade’s libertine novel, the first unexpurgated English edition by Austryn Wainhouse.

The book follows Justine, a twelve-year-old maiden, and her sexual misadventures in pre-revolutionary France. The first version was written in 1787 over two weeks, while de Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille. An expanded edition was published in 1791, marking Sade’s first published work. Justine was first published by the Olympia Press in 1953. The English translation is by Austryn Wainhouse, who used the pseudonym Pieralessandro Casavini.

Octavo, pp. 330, [2 (blank)], [2]; very good; original green and white wrappers printed in black (endpapers a little soiled, a large crease to rear wrapper).

SADE, Marquis de. Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised. Paris, The Olympia Press (The Traveller’s Companion Series, n. 67), 1959.

Olympia Press re-issue of the Marquis de Sade’s libertine novel, the first unexpurgated English edition by Austryn Wainhouse.

The book follows Justine, a twelve-year-old maiden, and her sexual misadventures in pre-revolutionary France. The first version was written in 1787 over two weeks, while de Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille. An expanded edition was published in 1791, marking Sade’s first published work. Justine was first published by the Olympia Press in 1953. The English translation is by Austryn Wainhouse, who used the pseudonym Pieralessandro Casavini.

Octavo, pp. 330, [2 (blank)], [2]; very good; original green and white wrappers printed in black (endpapers a little soiled, a large crease to rear wrapper).