Nell Kimball [e.a.] - Fille de Joie. The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals and some [...]

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Nell Kimball [et al.] - Fille de Joie. The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals and some Royal Favorites - New York - Dorset Press - [c. 1995] - [Reprint] - 448 pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket- 25 x 32 cm.

Condition: Good - with some wear. Neat copy.

Thematic coffee table book with documentation and texts (fiction and nonfiction) about worldwide prostitution, red light districts and brothels. Illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions. With table of contents. Text in English. Hardback edition.

¶ Contributions by Giacomo Casanova, New York Call Girl Virginia McManus, Frank Harris, John Cleland, Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra, Guide to Bangkok, Pierre Louys, Marquis De Sade, Sam Boal (The Pros of Paris), NY Madam Polly Adler, William Fitzpatrick (Tokyo After Dark) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Because of the references and reproductions of title pages of old erotic books and 'blue guides', this book is useful for antiquarians, erotica collectors and those interested in the collector's field of paid love.

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