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]
- 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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1 comment:
I don't know what she's holding either, but my first thought was that it looks like she's been knitting. That would go with the sheer boredom she's projecting.
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