RICHARDSON, Humphrey [Michel GALL, Pseud.] The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe. Paris: The Olympia Press. 1955.
Small format 8vo., original green card covers, ruled and lettered in black and white; pp. [viii], 9-198, [ii]; a near-fine copy, lightly creased to extremities, one small scratch to lower cover, a few dark marks to fore-edge and some pencil markings erased from ffep; with Olympia Press sticker repricing to 1.200 Francs.
First edition, first printing, without the green border to the title page. No. 13 in the Traveller’s Companion Series. Printed May 1955 by S.I.P., Montreuil, France, Paris, it was originally sold for 900 Francs. Originally written in French, the book was not published in its native language until 1963.
A thoughtful insight into what poor Robinson Crusoe must have got up to during his long, lonely sojourn on the island, essentially, “a guide to nanism, beastiality, homosexuality, memory and the power of fantasy". Gall later contributed another book to the Olympia Press, A Bedside Odyssey (no. 90 in Traveller’s Companion series) where he once again reimagines a historical figure, this time Homer, from a sexual point of view.
Kearney, pp. 68-9.
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