[ANON]. Privately printed for the Erotica Biblion Society, Paris, 1931. UNRECORDED. 14x9cm. 12pp. Original pink paper wraps lettered black, staple bound.
Publications from the Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York start to appear in late Victorian London, continuing throughout the 1930s. Erotica publishing can be notoriously hard to trace, often with both place and date being forged to throw authorities off the scent of obscenity. The Kinsey institute notes the place of publication for Passionate pastime is likely fictional, and as scant other examples exist of Paris as place of publication, it is more likely this is a quirk of the wider London and New York publisher rather than a separate imprint entirely. While these prolific and ephemeral pamphlets were cheaply produced and enthusiastically distributed amongst a discerning class, they were rarely saved or preserved.
A Country Girl’s Pleasure.
The tale of a simply country girl who happens upon a mysterious gypsy couple, later to live out her ‘curse’ of being taken by a ‘dumb gypsy boy’ with a ‘voluptuous expression’. (Difficult to choose a favourite quote, but for the polite purposes of a general catalogue, the winner is: “The danger of a posterior attack had never entered my imagination”)