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Les Onze Mille Verges: Or the Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu
by Guillaume Apollinaire; Nina Rootes (trans)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0720601746
- ISBN 13
- 9780720601749
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1976. First British Commonwealth Edition, VG/VG. In English. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Faint gutter separation on the title and page 127, but the pages are secure. Decorated endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped (£ 4.75) with rubbing, sunning to the spine and light shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 127 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall. Translated by Nina Rootes; introduction by Richard N. Coe.
In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the most original and influential poets of the twentieth century, turned his hand to the novel. He produced two books for the clandestine market. The finer of these was Les Onze Mille Verges"(Eleven Thousand Virgins). One of the most masterful and hilarious erotic novels of all time, it was once owlishly pronounced by Picasso to be Apollinaire's masterpiece. The title contains a play on the Catholic veneration of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, the martyred companions of Saint Ursula, replacing the word vierge (virgin) with verge (rod) due to a slip of the tongue by the protagonist and as an omen of his fate.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4282
- Title
- Les Onze Mille Verges: Or the Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu
- Author
- Guillaume Apollinaire; Nina Rootes (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0720601746
- ISBN 13
- 9780720601749
- Publisher
- Peter Owen Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Pages
- 127
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.5
- Keywords
- sexuality, classic, french literature, apollinaire, eleven thousand virgins
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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- Brodart
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- Spine
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