SELECTED WRITINGS. Selected and Translated by Margaret Crosland (ARC) by SADE, Marquis de - 1964

British Book Centre, NY [c1954]. Hard Cover. 306 pages; Includes Dialogue Entre un Pêtre et un Moribond; Les 120 Journées de Sodome; Justine; Contes et Fabliaux (The Mystified Magistrate; Miss Henrietta Stralson; Augustine de Villeblanche; Retaliation); Aline et Valcour; Le Comte Oxtiern; Discours; Juliette; La Philosophie dans le Boudoir; Idée sur les Romans; Zoloe; Testament. '...with de Sade, if he is to be examined and understood in a level-headed way, there is very little [of his works] that can be left out, because his range is so great and the extremes of his imagination so far-flung in unknown territory. During his lifetime he begged his detractors not to condemn him before reading to the end of whatever they were about to attack. The same holds good today...' 'A logical appreciation of de Sade is closely linked with important changes in human behaviour, concerned not with the sanctioning of moral anarchy but with the end of hypocrisy.'  dj shows minor signs of wear, else VG. Stock# 30582

British Book Center, New York, 1954. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Castle Books, New York. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. B002CPH61C . Grey hardcovers with a solid binding and an unmarked text, age tanning to the pages. Very light wear to the spine ends and corners. The DJ is unclipped with cover rubbing, intact with a small tear along the front cover and back cover top edge. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 127 pages .

19 x 12 cm- A tight and unmarked copy-1954 edition-DJ has both shelf wear and a few small tears-" When I was asked to select and translate work by the Marquis de Sade for publication in England I knew that there would be two major difficulties at the outset the difficulty of obtaining authentic texts and the difficulty of publishing in English important sections of his work which public opinion and legal precedent hold to be obscene and blasphemous. The former difficulty was partly overcome with the help of the British Muslim staff. In 1942 a great deal of new material in manuscript form was discovered at the castle of Comte Xavier de Sade, the descendant of the Marquis, in Normandy, but so far only a small collection of letters and some other fragments have been published. Until these discoveries were made it was not known that- de Sade was writing as early as 1764 or as late as 1814, the year before his deal. "- Leonard De Saint-Yves

Castle Books, New York, 1954. 1954 edition. Hardback. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 127 pages; Physical desc.: 127 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Saint-Yves, Leonard de.