Search Results: the perfumed garden by shaykh nefzawi

Neville Spearman, 1963. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

G. P. Putnam's Sons. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Acceptable. spine cracked, pages yellowing with age

Castle Books, 1964. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . 128 pages. Some discoloring and wear; a good solid reading copy. The jacket is heavily worn and torn. "Arabian manual of love complete and unexpurgated translated by Sir Richard F. Burton." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Classics; Inventory No: 200804. .

G.P. Putnam's, 1964. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Castle Books, 1964. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Castle Books, nd, c. Good. HARDBACK- Dust jacket missing. Boards have light soiling but in good condition. Pages clean and in good condition inside.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Paperback. Acceptable. 1964. First American Edition. 256 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and mild cracking to front hinge. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Book is slightly curled with noticeable forward lean.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

G.P. Putnam's, 1964-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good in good dust jacket. Text in English, Arabic. 271 p. 23 cm. Bibliography: p. 57-59.

G.P. Putnam's, 1964-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good in good dust jacket.

This is a collection of erotic writings and sensual delights from the 16th century.

New York: Castle Books, 1964. Narrow octavo, gray boards (hardcover), 128 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi is much more than a mere recounting of the love practices and sensual delights of ancient Arabia. It is a thoughtul, almost reverential, examination of human sexual activity, viewed as a natural and basic component in the divine design; it demonstrates in the process that peoples of the Orient are far less sexually inhibited than we, their engagement in the acts of love being not only a natural and necessary part of life, but an art. Shaykh Nefzawi, born in the sixteenth century, was more knowledgeable in the general literature and medicine than was common among the Arabs of his time. His frank treatment of sexual physiology, love techniques, and the various postures is similar to that of the “Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.” However, The Perfumed Garden stands apart from most, if not all, books of a carnal… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1964. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 1st U.S. Edition / 1st Printing. H Hard Cover. Good. First U.S. Edition / First Printing. Good, no dust jacket, Spine slightly darkened. 15 x 22. hard cover. 271pp.

Valhalla Publishing. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1963. Softcover. Covers have some soiling and small tear near spine top .

NY: Castle, 1964. dj w/lite hipping unclipped price, in mylar; grey c w/black spine titles; 128 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

Neville Spearman. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (sexual relationships, erotic literature) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Castle Books, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Good. Slightly smaller, thinner book, gray boards, black lettering very fine on spine, 128 lightly browned pages. DJ has beautiful purple and black pattern, title and author in black design on front. DJ has light wear to bookfold edges, slight wear to top front tip and spine top left edge, slight wear to spine bottom left and right edge. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First US Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Gently used; the spine is creased. Text is clean. 256 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

New York: Putnam, 1963. 1st Thus . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. The book is excellent condition with minor wear o/w tight clean and square. Translated by Sir Richard Burton The classic Arabian treatise on physical love.