Armand Coppens - De memoires van een erotische boekverkoper [First edition]

Armand Coppens - De memoires van een erotische boekverkoper - Amsterdam - Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij - 1969 - 1st edition - [240] pp - Paperback - 12,5 x 20 cm. - Design: Karel Beunis.

Condition: Good. Dutch translation (by Denise in 't Veld) of 'The Memoirs of an Erotic Bookseller' (1969); a novel written under a pseudonym by the antiquarian erotica specialist Nick Schors (1925-2014). This first standalone volume is all that has been published.

The book describes the adventures of a shrewd Erotica dealer and his eccentric suppliers and customers in the 1950s and 1960s. The bibliographical facts make it mandatory reading for collectors of erotica. This is the first Dutch edition. An illustrated second edition was published in 1970.

¶ With suggestive cover by Karel Beunis and J. Cursto [Jaap Jungcurt]; the cut-and-paste work appears to show naked bodies, but is in fact quite chaste. At least 8 titles were published in the unnamed 'Erotische Reeks' between 1969 and 1972.

Cf. Verzameld Werk Catalogus 7 (1988) ErR 102.