Description
The first edition of Sexual Personae, signed by Camille Paglia.
Thick octavo, xiv, [2], 718pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in silver on the spine. The first printing, with a full number line on the copyright page. Previous ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. Solid text block, internally clean. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout. In the publisher’s dust jacket, light shelf wear, faint sunning to the spine, a bright, near fine example.
Inscribed on the title page: “16 April 2013 / For Norman / Camille Paglia.”
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson is Camille Paglia’s sweeping 1990 study of sex, art, and Western culture, published by Yale University Press after a long and difficult path to publication. The work became both a bestseller and a deeply controversial book, admired by some readers for its ambition and range and criticized by others for its provocative arguments about gender, culture, and sexuality.
