COLLINS, Jackie. The World is Full of Married Men.

(London): W. H. Allen & Co., 1968. First UK edition. Hardcover. 20.6 by 13.7cm. 191 pages. Jackie Collins’s first novel, a racy and controversial portrait of marriage, adultery and the ruthless world of the London advertising and entertainment industries during the Swinging Sixties. David Cooper, a married advertising executive, embarks on an affair with the ambitious young Claudia Parker, while his wife Linda eventually begins an affair of her own. Collins combines sexual frankness with a satirical depiction of the media industry, casting-couch culture and the double standards surrounding male and female sexuality. The novel became an immediate bestseller and was banned in several countries, while its notoriety helped establish Collins as a major popular novelist. The book was subsequently adapted into a 1979 film, for which Collins herself wrote the screenplay. A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped, dust jacket.