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Content: "With the true storyteller's verve and insight, Armand Coppens relates his business ventures with fellow booksellers and his many clients who have elaborate fantasy lives and libraries to match. His knowledge of rare erotica and his genuine love of books show him to be a man of intelligence and taste whose sense of humor has illuminated many odd adventures. "Twenty years ago, the young Mr Coppens was an amateur collector of erotica. One day he decided to become a professional bookseller specializing in those books concerned with 'deviations' rather than with 'normal' fantasies. Since then, Mr Coppens, a Belgian by birth, has set up a bookshop of his own in London and has traveled widely in England and on the Continent in search of merchandise for his clients. "Necessarily presevrving a certain distance from most of these clients, Mr Coppens nevertheless became involved with some of them. His stories of these escapades are a delightful mixture of sophisticated amusement, joy and businessman's acumen, tempered with pity and even compassion. The story of two elderly couples, whose sado-masochistic fantasies enabled Mr Coppens to make a handsome profit in an exchange of somewhat unusual erotica, is both funny and sad. "Mr Coppens, a man of robust temperament and constitution, is generally not given to philosophizing. But he does state his opinion as to why erotica exists and has survived many changes in custom and morals throughout the ages. For Mr Coppens, the reason has to do with the limitations of man's sexual ability compared with his unlimited appetite. In erotic literature, the hero never fails; his ability is inexhaustible, and his partners, like his appetite, are always willing - except, of course, when the fantasy demands resistance. "This book, already published in England, Holland and Germany, provides fascinating insights into the life of a rare man in a rare profession." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: Reviews: |
" This lack of any real relationship between seller and customer is, I think, clearly illustrated by the already mentioned practice common among dealers in erotic of not putting a fixed price on a book. As one cynical dealer once said to me, the best guide to the value of a book is the degree of trembling it produces in the customer's hands! The fact that value is so arbitrarily but advantageously fixed means that the bookseller has to remain aloof, wit all his wits about him, to catch the slightest glimmer of interest on the part of the customer. Such dealers are not infrequently unscrupulous and, in my opinion, one of their worst traits is the readiness with which they will mutilate rare and beautiful books for a quick turnover. " Secondhand booksellers |
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