Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A Fine first American Edition/First Printing in a Fine dust-jacket that has some scuffing.

Venus Bound is the story of the Olympia Press, a small, but influential, radical publisher that released groundbreaking and often controversial works of erotica in the 1960s and 1970s. De St. Jorre tells the story of the editors, writers, and artists who made the Olympia Press a cutting-edge hub for erotic exploration, and of the erotic literature and images they produced.

The book is packed with fascinating anecdotes and never-before-published photographs of the Press' artists and authors in the studio, on the road, and at home. It is also filled with fresh insight into the history of erotic literature and art, and into the radical, sometimes taboo subject of sex.; 8vo; 358 pages.