Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Paperback 1140: Undress Rehearsal / John Carver (Softcover Library 95265)

Paperback 1140: Softcover Library 95265 (1st ptg, late '60s to 1970)

Title: Undress Rehearsal
Author: John Carver
Cover artist: photo cover

Condition: 9/10    
Value: $12

[Newest addition to the Doug Peterson Collection]


Best things about this cover: 
  • Seems pretty bored for someone at an orgy. "What an orgy!" "Meh, it's OK." Maybe that wicker chair seat just isn't that comfortable to sit in naked.
  • What is she holding? A leaf? A shoe? A feather? I also have a follow-up question. Namely, "Why?"
  • Those thigh-high black leather fetish boots are shiny and spectacular. I just wish she seemed to be getting any joy from them.


Best things about this back cover: 
  • The backs of sleaze paperbacks fall into two categories: brief, enigmatic, typo-ridden prose poems that seem to have been translated hastily from some lost Central European language; or, treatises.
  • I took one look at the name "Roz" and thought, "oh that's definitely the requisite lesbian." I was close. 
  • "Adults could make love with youngsters"—did that *ever* sound good? "Youngsters?" It's better than "children," I guess, but only barely.
Page 123~
"Filthy. It is even more disgusting in the flesh. A degenerate, characterless story containing the grossest invitations to moral disintegration. I object—and I shall go on objecting."
There's your back cover blurb right there. Just ascribe it to some the head of some fictional Public Morals Org. and you're in business! 

~RP

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