Choisy, Maryse — L'Amour Dans Les Prisons: Reportage

Paris, Editions Montaigne, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. No. 10 in the Collection du Gay Savoir series, bound in wraps, soiled and chipped a bit, but clean of interior, and protected in a stiff Mylar jacket. Trade edition, penned by Maryse Choisy (1903–1979), a French philosophical writer, journalist and founder of the journal Psyché, after World War One's conclusion a student at Girton College, part of the University of Cambridge, and an analysand of Sigmund Freud. This treatise is about love and sexuality in the prisons. Choisy won many awards in her lifetime including the National Order of Merit, a silver Medal of Arts, Lettres, et Sciences, and the Lamennais Prize in 1967.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good