This is a different edition of the tale told in ‘Oh! Oh! Josephine’, Volume 1, published in 1973 by Luxor Press Ltd. as an accompaniment to the film ‘Josephine Mutzenbacher’. This edition acknowledges an earlier title, and it seems certain that both are translations. The content of the two is broadly the same, making the ‘Volume 1’ indication of the Luxor edition rather puzzling. This Carroll & Graf edition is by far the less coy, particularly about the age of the ‘heroine’ at the time of the events reported, and its language is explicit. It relates the awakening of a group of (very) young people in Vienna, and their introduction to the adult world via a surprisingly credible sequence of encounters. The hypocrisy of most of the males Josephine encounters is also regrettably credible. As might be expected, the narrative is quite stimulating, rather more than the Luxor edition ( )

This is Volume 1 of the English translation of a book published in 1906, in German, purporting to be the memoirs of a Viennese whore. Its issue followed the production of a movie based on the original, and the book contains a number of B/W stills from that movie. The eponymous lady’s sexual education began at a (morally unacceptable) early age, and few details are omitted here of how she progressed, willingly, through a thorough education in the amatory arts, starting with locally available men such as lodgers and teachers and progressing, through relatives, to fully commercial operation. The book is lightly written, and gives an impression of unashamed verisimilitude, indicating that the narrator thoroughly enjoyed her life and her experiences. This is a classic whose availability has been severely limited by modern standards of acceptability regarding inappropriate relationships. ( )