{"title":"Curated by Gemma Janes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-4160676e-7fff-b9fb-8269-8a9fcacc566c\"\u003eThe first guest to curate our shelves is Gemma Janes: photographer, collage artist, and the founder of Sendb00ks. Through Sendb00ks, Gemma commissions artists to respond to books through detachable covers, dispatching editions to subscribers around the world. Like JOUISSANCE, Gemma is led by chance encounters, personal obsessions and the book as a beautiful object. Enter her curation – a slice of her library, arranged on our shelves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"therese-and-isabelle","title":"Thérèse et Isabelle","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-6dd6e2c8-7fff-4ff9-6c72-9bfdd3d9a36c\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSigned by the legend herself. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“The nastiest, sweetest love story, the kind that happens between girls at school when nothing else exists but the precision of each moment. Obsessive, sharp, cruel but completely brilliant. Backhanded Jean Genet said of her “She is crazy, ugly, cheap, poor, but she has a lot of talent. FRENCH.” - Gemma Janes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis is the Gallimard first-edition paperback, one of 7750 copies printed on Libert laid paper. This is number 4480, and is signed by the author to Berthe and Roger, “with my old friendship”. Please note this is a French-language edition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"Gallimard first-edition paperback","offer_id":58212873372029,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/1_1736d91e-985a-4b97-aad4-49f3d8e060c7.png?v=1779879786"},{"product_id":"histoire-de-loeil","title":"Histoire de l'oeil","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-bfed8e35-7fff-daeb-9034-9ab4492e62d7\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Another filthy French man gets deep into his own kink. This peephole edition should be entered with caution. Bataille wrote this pseudonymously as an exorcism on desire and death, I can't recommend this one without knowing the reader but it exists and is a portal if you're interested.” - Gemma Janes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis divine pink paper volume, complete with its collaged eye slipcover case, is the rare 1967 Jean-Jacques Pauvert edition. It is number 5054 of 10,000 numbered copies. Please note this is a French-language edition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"Jean-Jacques Pauvert","offer_id":58212995367293,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/2_91cd4d80-382d-4725-9caa-af8a776fded1.png?v=1779882594"},{"product_id":"knots","title":"Knots","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-6ada0320-7fff-ec25-c0e9-e85d612af9a6\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA companion of a book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Deadly dynamics between lovers, mothers and brothers, poems reminiscent of playground games. We have here a witty psychoanalyst's map to hope and fear, expectation and disappointment, hopeless little patterns our minds are compelled to repeat.” - Gemma Janes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWe have two Penguin paperback reprints – one, 1972, the other, 1985 with an inscription: “...may all your knots be small ones”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Paperback 1972","offer_id":58213005459837,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Penguin Paperback 1985","offer_id":58213005492605,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/4_ab67af1c-3e1b-4087-9bc2-77be32024390.png?v=1779882729"},{"product_id":"nightwood","title":"Nightwood","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-01446668-7fff-c482-4b00-860474750b26\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSexy, sultry, unhinged in places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Dive into the underworld of Paris in the 1920s – Djuana Barnes was one of the less acknowledged modernists perhaps because her prose is so hard to follow. Admired by the greats (T.S. Eliot edited and published it) she lived opposite E.E. Cummings for years. Let it get under your skin like poetry and walk around with it instead of trying to understand the story.” - Gemma Janes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA New Directions Paperback, printed in 1961 and featuring an introduction by T.S. Eliot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"New Directions paperback","offer_id":58213014241661,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/3_e6aa334d-9d20-43b3-972a-2ca27719ce06.png?v=1779882922"},{"product_id":"fear-of-flying","title":"Fear of Flying","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-c29ed16c-7fff-4c54-61c8-6502d464e94e\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eNever a book about sex but a book about freedom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Most of the books listed here I read when in my late teens, this one was a game-changer in that I quickly saw myself in Erica Jong and her flinging herself from relationship to controlling relationship, she insisted of her bestseller: “It was never a book about sex but a book about freedom.” Reading can also be a way to reconsider. While reading, I broke up with my boyfriend of the time and gave him this to read as a parting gift.” - Gemma Janes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA delightfully bright vintage Panther paperback, reprinted in 1978.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"Panther Paperback","offer_id":58213018272125,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/5_2558298b-3140-4073-80b9-c821e5dfae94.png?v=1779883085"},{"product_id":"the-devil-in-the-flesh","title":"The Devil in the Flesh","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-e1beda95-7fff-a7f5-92ce-eb1fd5634e17\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-af9af15a-7fff-cfc3-5d0f-d82a9ca2dad7\"\u003eA precocious tale from a teen author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Raymond Radiguet was the very young lover of Jean Cocteau. He wrote the book while still just a teenager and died of typhoid at just 20. This was his only published novel, which Cocteau forced him to write, slightly disturbing framing given the content of the book which is about a 16-year-old boy who has an affair with an older married woman, it stands as an original work of incredible literary merit.” - Gemma Janes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis is the first English translation, published by Calder and Boyars in 1968. Its partially faded cover shows that a previous reader left it sitting in the sun under a stack of other summer reads. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"Calder and Boyars first edition paperback","offer_id":58213025677693,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/8_2ec1a8b7-8304-4e04-9049-e0c647942a36.png?v=1779883313"},{"product_id":"on-reading","title":"On Reading","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-6a6c87a6-7fff-68f4-cac8-31c32f98f9d7\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe perfect gift for anyone who has ever missed their stop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Fifty years of photographs of people reading on rooftops, park benches, street corners, backstage at school plays. Kertesz understood that reading is both solitary and universal, a private world carried around in public.” - Gemma Janes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis is the Penguin books 1982 paperback edition with a stamp from the John Hopkins university in the inside cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"Penguin paperback","offer_id":58213028757885,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/6_4711ec0e-a91d-4005-84ff-fcea74b9ca62.png?v=1779883668"},{"product_id":"birthday","title":"Birthday","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-2f3a7f96-7fff-b5d0-fefa-0324369c855f\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eTwo artists in love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“I have fallen for Tanning recently. It is often an experience of true intimacy to read the work of a painter, witnessing how a surrealist experienced the world around her. I love to walk around with this one in spring, incredulous as to what Max Ernst was doing to have relationships with all the coolest girls of the time. She began writing seriously in her eighties, which I love.” - Gemma Janes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis is the scarce 1986 First edition paperback, printed by The Lapis Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jouissance","offers":[{"title":"First edition paperback","offer_id":58213033050493,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/files\/7_4eb4d337-d8fd-4e7b-bfd5-67c1de6cf46d.png?v=1779883828"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/6054\/9167\/collections\/1_1736d91e-985a-4b97-aad4-49f3d8e060c7.png?v=1779879917","url":"https:\/\/shop.jouissanceparfums.com\/collections\/curated-by-gemma-janes.oembed","provider":"Jouissance","version":"1.0","type":"link"}