The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi

Translated by Sir Richard Burton. First American Edition. 

Dust Jacket: Very Good+
Jacket design by Lili Munk, which is beautifully done. An unclipped jacket with price ($6.00) still intact. Some chipping on top/bottom of jacket.

Hardcover: Very Good+
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. White cloth with red design and gold lettering. The cover has some aging and browning but still solid. No writing or markings in the book, 271 pp. Edited with an introduction and additional notes by Alan Hull Walton.

"The Perfumed Garden has been described as a penegyric of love, a song of sensual delights, a collection of joyous imaginings, a work of rare and curious erotic knowledge, a contribution to anthropological and ethnological research."

There was an initial private publication of the work in 1886.