Kama Sutra - Anne Hooper's
Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra: Classic Lovemaking Techniques Reinterpreted For Today's Lovers (First Timmins Edition Hardcover Release in Archival Protection)
A Sophisticated, Highly Visual Transformation of Ancient Eastern Erotic Wisdom for Contemporary Couples
A Sophisticated, Highly Visual Transformation of Ancient Eastern Erotic Wisdom for Contemporary Couples
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra: Classic Lovemaking Techniques Reinterpreted For Today's Lovers
- Author: Anne Hooper
- Publisher: Timmins Publishers (In Association with Dorling Kindersley), Cape Town / London
- Publication Date: 1995
- ISBN-10: 0869786113
- ISBN-13: 9780869786116
- Edition Details: First South African Hardcover Edition (Timmins Co-Edition).
- Binding: Original publisher's premium hardcover cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, complete with original full-colour pictorial dust jacket under an archival protective wrap.
- Physical Format: Quarto (4to), 160 pages. Lavishly printed on heavy art stock with more than 100 specially commissioned, high-fidelity contemporary colour photographs, thematic structural tables, and anatomical touch grids.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Exterior / Boards: The cloth boards are exceptionally flat, square, bright, and structurally flawless. The corners remain perfectly sharp with no softening or shelf friction. The spine is completely straight, tight, unbroken, and undamaged, showing no vertical creasing or lean.
o Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and immaculately preserved. Internal pages and vivid gloss color plates are bright, white, clean, and fully intact. Entirely free of standard user highlighting, previous owner ink inscriptions, gift notations, name stamps, or dog-ears. This copy has clearly been meticulously maintained and looked after thus far.
o Special Protection: The book is safely preserved and protected within a premium fitted cellophane cover wrapper. -
The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Description: Complete, unclipped, and brilliant, now beautifully enhanced and stabilized under its cellophane wrapper. Displays only very limited, micro-minimal signs of expected edge wear or light storage friction along the margins, fully consistent with careful long-term preservation. Free of major chips, deep tears, or sun-faded spine bleaching.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1995 by Timmins, Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra is a brilliant, paradigm-shifting transformation of the world's finest illustrated erotic masterpieces. Drawing aside the curtain of myth and mystery surrounding ancient Eastern texts, celebrated sex therapist and bestselling author Anne Hooper updates and synthesises the absolute best elements of The Kama Sutra, The Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and The Tao. Crucially, Hooper discourages readers from treating these methods as overly choreographed athletic stunts or distorted yoga poses. Instead, her compelling modern commentary emphasizes pressure points, creative problem solving, sensual manners, and artistic freedom to foster a loving physical and emotional connection. Voluptuously illustrated with over 100 tasteful photographs of contemporary couples demonstrating sacred positions, this unrivaled guide serves as an essential manual for lasting fulfillment. A scarce South African co-edition hardcover, this volume stands as an investment-grade addition for collectors of premium human sexuality history and modern lifestyle reference libraries.
Published in 1995 by Timmins, Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra is a brilliant, paradigm-shifting transformation of the world's finest illustrated erotic masterpieces. Drawing aside the curtain of myth and mystery surrounding ancient Eastern texts, celebrated sex therapist and bestselling author Anne Hooper updates and synthesises the absolute best elements of The Kama Sutra, The Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and The Tao. Crucially, Hooper discourages readers from treating these methods as overly choreographed athletic stunts or distorted yoga poses. Instead, her compelling modern commentary emphasizes pressure points, creative problem solving, sensual manners, and artistic freedom to foster a loving physical and emotional connection. Voluptuously illustrated with over 100 tasteful photographs of contemporary couples demonstrating sacred positions, this unrivaled guide serves as an essential manual for lasting fulfillment. A scarce South African co-edition hardcover, this volume stands as an investment-grade addition for collectors of premium human sexuality history and modern lifestyle reference libraries.
Author Profile: Anne Hooper
Anne Hooper (born 1941) is an exceptionally distinguished British sex therapist, family counselor, and bestselling author who has written a succession of phenomenally successful relationship guides with global sales exceeding six million copies. A former editor of Penthouse Forum and a frequent authority on international television and radio broadcasting, Hooper pioneered the accessible integration of clinical sexual health with mainstream publishing. Her monumental bibliography includes landmark titles such as The Ultimate Sex Book, Anne Hooper's Great Sex Guide, and Kama Sutra for 21st Century Lovers. Celebrated by therapists and marriage counselors for her warm, non-judgmental narrative pace and rigorous scientific clarity, her literature is widely regarded by sexual health historians as a vital foundation of modern marital therapy and therapeutic erotica.
Anne Hooper (born 1941) is an exceptionally distinguished British sex therapist, family counselor, and bestselling author who has written a succession of phenomenally successful relationship guides with global sales exceeding six million copies. A former editor of Penthouse Forum and a frequent authority on international television and radio broadcasting, Hooper pioneered the accessible integration of clinical sexual health with mainstream publishing. Her monumental bibliography includes landmark titles such as The Ultimate Sex Book, Anne Hooper's Great Sex Guide, and Kama Sutra for 21st Century Lovers. Celebrated by therapists and marriage counselors for her warm, non-judgmental narrative pace and rigorous scientific clarity, her literature is widely regarded by sexual health historians as a vital foundation of modern marital therapy and therapeutic erotica.
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