The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure aka Anne Rice [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1983 • A Dutton Paperback Original • Mint

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure (aka Anne Rice) [SLEEPING BEAUTY #1]

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1983] E.P. DUTTON

Rare TRUE first edition of Anne Rice's erotic classic published under pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure. 

First published in 1983 as a Dutton trade paperback original in an extremely limited batch before being issued in hardcover. 

Stated first edition with full number line on copyright page and $6.95 price on back cover.

Book is mint and unread.  Pristine thick pictorial paper boards.

Pages look and read like new. 

Stunning!

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious.

Now Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him ... as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.