DEKOBRA Maurice - When you are a courtesan...[1927].

DEKOBRA Maurice. When thou shalt be a courtesan...(Tu Seras Coutisane) A Handbook for Beginning Camellia Ladies. Cracow-Warsaw [1927]. Pantheon Publishing House. pp. 131; 21cm.

Original softcover (rare surviving booklet cover). Fair condition, soiling, rubbing, block in 2 parts, previous owner's signature, back cover missing.

A guidebook for courtesans by Maurice Dekobra (1885-1973), French journalist, scandal writer, author of popular adventure and subversive novels (in 1951 all his works were withdrawn from Polish libraries and censored). Includes: Introductory Remarks on Love; Principles of Male Psychology; Initiation into the Art of Sellout Love; and Four Stories from the Life of Courtesans.