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The Canon of Aphrodisia [Complete in Four Volumes].
Portola Valley, CA: First Bite Press, 2023. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Classic horror, fantasy, noir, fable, tragedy, sci-fi, fairy tales, and Americana find their way into this four volume collection of literary erotica.
This four volume collection contains 12 stories with 16 full page illustrations, including Authors’ Notes with historical context following each tale. The authors use erotic scenes as a fresh way to explore familiar character arcs and thematic elements, taking great care to present each tale in the idiom and voice of the original author when possible, so that each story might work on its own terms. The original stories were conceived in a patriarchal, hetero-normative context, but by shining an egalitarian light on each of them, unexpected dynamics emerge between these famous characters creating erotic scenes that will appeal to the modern reader.
Volume I:
The Dark Deed
The Time Machine
The Very Strange Case
of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
The Lost Entry of
Frankenstein’s Monster
Volume II:
Manners & Merrymaking
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Wendy & Peter Pan
Cinderella & the Great Ball
Volume III:
The Upper Hand
The Bard & the Ell-Maid
of Sherwood Forest
The Private Dick
Another Adventure for
Tom Sawyer
Volume IV:
The Mortal Transcends
Pygmalion, Cynisca, &
Galatea
An Unusual Request
The Story of Not-So-Little
Sanjay
Typefaces used are Eric Gill’s Joanna and Perpetua. The books are printed on Arches Rives Lightweight Paper using Hanco Raven Black Ink on a Vandercook Universal III. Limited and deluxe bindings by Amy Borezo. [publisher's statement]. Fine in Fine Custom Box. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, leather spine in burgundy, brown, green, and purple with blanks, hand-marbled paper endpages, leather headbands, gilt lettering and decorative elements, hand colored frontispieces; housed in a telescoping box in green cloth with an
acrylic window to show the spines. 12mo. 77, 77, 79, 91pp. Illus. (Colored and b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 8 of 25. Second suite of plates in brown cave paper folder. Item #12355
Price: $800.00