Venus School-Mistress

Published in 1968 by Grove Press, this hardcover edition of the erotica book Venus School-Mistress features the typeface Smoke and a cover photo by Lee Kraft. There is no design credit. According to the back cover synopsis, “Venus School-Mistress is a collection of fiction, verses, drama, and philosophy on the theme of flagellation.”

Venus School-Mistress was published under the imprint Zebra Books, one of their imprints known for publishing “pornographic classics”. You can read more on the history in an article by Loren Glass for the Los Angeles Review of Books.