legman introduction (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Octavo, 25 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is blue with white print. Dust jacket in mylar. Mild edge wear, rubbing, toning to spine. Price unclipped: "$25". Boards in green cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block ha small surface tear to front pastedown, light musty odor. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1395207. FP New Rockville Stock. First edition; Limited edition, number 240.

hardcover. Zustand: Very good. facsimile reproduction. Three volumes, (a reproduction of the work originally published in London 1877-1885) absent orginal title pages and illustrations. Limited to 1000 copies of this deluxe edition (as indicated on slipcase). Each volume with cream colored linen cloth covers with gilt titles on spine on a red field; each volume with a bound-in yellow ribbon marker. Volume I: Index Librorum Prohibitoru, 543 pages. Volume II: Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, lx + 593 pages. Volume III: Catena Librorum Tacendorum, lxvii + 594 pages. Volumes include preliminary remarks, epigraphs, additions, on quoting authorities, authorities consulted, index, errata. Books are in near fine condition. Slipcase has some scuffing, still very good. 060299A Bibliography, Erotica, Curiosa, Books About Books.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Très bon état. In-4 étroit 25,5 x 15 cm. Reliure éditeur pleine toile noire, titre argent sur le dos, 354 pp., 1920 ouvrages référencés, index. Exemplaire en bon état. Texte en anglais.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Grove, 1966. First edition. First printing. Hardbound in slipcase. Both volumes, very good in a very good jacket. Slipcase near fine, some slight rubbing. A clean tight set. Book are tight, bright, unmarked, a couple of small spots on fore-edge, pages clean. The jacket is clean with small tears and slight bumping to crown. 8vo. Ixiii+2359pp., pagination continuous. Introduction by Gershon Legman. The first complete and public reprint of this classic Victorian erotic autobiography, penned between approximately 1883 and 1895 by an Englishman of means. In the USA it was finally published without censorship in 1966 by Grove Press, but in 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years' prison for producing a UK reprint. The identity of "Walter" is unknown. The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834 1900). He was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert on erotic books in his day. Gershon Legman was the first to link "Walter" and Ashbee, in his introduction to the 1962 reprints of Ashbee's bibliographies, and the 1966 Grove Press edition of My Secret Life included an expanded version of that essay.