FIRST UK EDITION, Les Onze Mille Verges, Guilllaume Apollinaire, 1976

London: Peter Owen Limited, 1976. First British Commonwealth Edition, VG/VG. In English. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Faint gutter separation on title and page 127, but pages secure. Decorated endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped (£ 4.75) with rubbing and light shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 127 pages. 5½ x 8½ tall. Translated by Nina Rootes; introduction by Richard N. Coe.

In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the most original and influential poets of the twentieth century, turned his hand to the novel. He produced two books for the clandestine market. The finer of these was “Les Onze Mille Verges” (Eleven Thousand Virgins). One of the most masterful and hilarious erotic novels of all time, it was once owlishly pronounced by Picasso to be Apollinaire's masterpiece.