A Man for the Asking 1969 Catherine Breillat ~ Erotica/Erotic Novel ~ Scarce

Title: A Man for the Asking

Author: Catherine Breillat / Translated from the French by Harold J. Salemson
Description: First Edition. Black cloth over boards with white lettering on spine and a red heart on the front cover. Previous owner's initials neatly marked in upper corner of front free endpaper, else interior clean. The dust jacket features a photographic portrait of the author on the cover. DJ not price clipped ($4.95); in an archival mylar sleeve. 128 pages.

A scarce copy of Breillat's first book, an erotic novel written when she was in her teens (the dust jacket flap says she was sixteen at the time). It was banned in Italy and, in France, banned from being sold to anyone under the eighteen. The German magazine Stern called it ''the most indecent book of the year.'' One perceptive contemporary review said of the novel, which depicts the longing of a middle-aged man for a young girl, ''for a 16-year old girl to be so intimately acquainted with what goes on in the mind of a middle-aged male professional seducer is remarkable.''

Catherine Breillat (b. 1948) is a French filmmaker, actress, novelist and screenwriter, known for her controversial and sexually explicit films. She is currently a Professor of Film at The European Graduate School.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Place: New York
Year: 1969

Keywords: erotic, erotica, novel,