North Hollywood, Essex House, (1968). A paperback original, an "adult novel," i.e., science fiction erotica, published by a short-lived house dedicated to erotic literary fiction. Farmer won a Hugo Award in 1953 for his first published science fiction, a novella called "The Lovers," which broke the taboo on sex in science fiction, according to the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Several years after this book Farmer wrote the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, which was published under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout, who was a fictional character created by Kurt Vonnegut. This volume has a postscript by Theodore Sturgeon, the science fiction writer who reportedly was the actual model for Trout. Owner stamp of another author inside the front cover. Mildly rubbed; near fine. [#033449] SOLD