Beauty's Release: The Continued Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty
Price: $150.00
Hard Cover. New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Near Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Rice on the half-title page. Publisher's lilac cloth, spine lettered in silver; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Nancy Etheredge, depicting angels, men, and women. Near fine book, with spine ends lightly bumped and slight toning to extremities, internally clean; about fine unclipped dust jacket, with just a touch of wear to spine ends. Overall, a beautiful copy of the third book in The Sleeping Beauty Quartet. Originally published anonymously under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure, The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is Anne Rice's BDSM erotica series, written nearly a decade after the success of her first novel, Interview with the Vampire (1976). The series is comprised of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983), Beauty's Punishment (1984), Beauty's Release (1985), and, thirty years later, Beauty's Kingdom (2015). Taking loose inspiration from Sleeping Beauty, it follows Beauty and several male characters through various sexual adventures. Beauty's Release takes place primarily in the Sultan's realm, where Beauty, Tristan, and Laurent have been taken following a raid of the village. As stated on the dust jacket, "In the tradition of the great erotic masters, A. N. Roquelaure has imagined (for the uninhibited reader) a voluptuous adult fairy tale." Item #ARC008
