Showing posts with label Daniel Defoe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daniel Defoe. Show all posts

Monday, May 4, 2009

Paperback 226: Roxana / Daniel Defoe (Royal Giant 24)

Paperback 226: Royal Giant 24 (1st thus, 1953)

Title: Roxana
Author: Daniel Defoe
Cover artist: Barye Phillips

Yours for: $20


Best things about this cover:

  • "The piquant classic about powdered peruques and saucy foppish sex games played in front of ornate mirrors"
  • "Pardon me, madam, but I've lost my pinky ring and I was wondering if, perchance, it had fallen between your magnificent breasts. Let me just look ... and look ... still looking ... is that it? ... no ... wait ..."

Best things about this back cover:
  • Wrap-around cover - hot!
  • This is actually the back cover of a VHS tape entitled "Slumber Party Girls of the Restoration Era"
  • "Dance, rummy, dance .... now sing 'I'm Every Woman' ... now raise the roof ... that's it ..."

Page 123~

Under these dreadful apprehensions I looked back on the life I had lived with the utmost contempt and abhorrence.


Been there.

~RP