Three Times a Woman by Anonymous ISBN 13: 9780881840100

New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 1983 Carroll & Graf, New York. 1983. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. Stated First Carroll and Graf Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; missing upper corner of front wrap; edge bumping to wraps; light toning to papers; slight bends in text from storage. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 253 pp 12mo. The original intent of this novel was to expose the absolute licentiousness in Russia under the Czars by recording the sexual fate of the beautiful serf girl Grushenka. Because of her resemblance to a young noblewoman she is purchased to be a stand-in for her husband where she learns her skills and is passed to the nephew then kidnapped into a Moscow bordello for the country's aristocratic men and women, and finally to the sensual world of 18th Century Paris. A clean very presentable copy.

Carroll & Graf, 1983. Very Good. 12mo softcover, 254pp, perfect-bound, $3.95 spine price, distributed by [Publishers Group West] but without credit on wrapper. First Edition with this title, reprints "Grushenka" (1933), adult erotica about Russian serf girl, kidnapping, bordellos. Reprinted several times, by Brandon House, Holloway House, foreign and print-on-demand editions, this edition scarcer amongst US contemporaries. Generally attributed to filmmaker Val Lewton, a Russian-American regular on the B-movie circuit, "Gone with the Wind" story editor, and producer of several 1940s horror films. Very Good, light soil, rubbing, toning, brief spine crack. For consenting, mature audiences.