Dell/Grove Press, New York, 1971.  Translated by Lowell Bair.  MMPB, 221 pages.  Wraps have some creases and reading creases, some age toning and spotting.  Binding tight with small age spots/stain on outer page block.  Society stamp on verso of front and rear wraps and Date/Due inked on last blank page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  ‘This scandalous novel, which has sold more than half a million copies since its initial, clandestine publication in France, has rightly been compared to its illustrious and still mysterious predecessor, Story of O.  Acclaimed as a defense of eroticism, a novel dealing with the esthetics of sexuality, Emmanuelle tells of the unusual adventures of a beautiful woman who is a total and happy sensualist in a novel of literary and philosophical merit.’ (from rear wrap)