MY SECRET LIFE VOLUMES 1-11
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Editorial: Grove Press, 1966
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Título: MY SECRET LIFE VOLUMES 1-11
Editorial: Grove Press
Año de publicación: 1966
Encuadernación: Soft cover
Condición: Fine
Edición: Special Edition
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MY SECRET LIFE. [Complete in Two Volumes; Vols. 1-6; 7-11]
Publicado por
Grove Press, New York, 1966
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Librería: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
1st Edition. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney, with his small name sticker at the bottom of the front pastedown. 8vo. 1st printing. Eleven volumes in two. Ixiii+2359pp., pagination continuous. Introduction by Gershon Legman. The first complete and public reprint of this classic Victorian erotic autobiography. Between approximately 1883 and 1895, someone, presumably an Englishman of means, had printed on the Continent an eleven-volume sexual autobiography limited, so he thought, to just six copies. Who the printer or publisher was has not been established with certainty but the most likely possibility is Auguste Brancart, a prolific publisher of erotica who began his career in the early 1880's in Bruxelles and toward the end of the decade moved to Amsterdam. Interestingly, the title page of My Secret Life has 'Amsterdam. Not for Publication' on it but in the sub rosa world of erotica publishing such indications are to be taken with a pinch of salt. The scarcity of the first edition of My Secret Life has been overstated; it certainly is a rare book, but it is not unique like Edward Sellon's The Ups and Downs of Life (1867) which exists in just two copies. More than six copies, as ordered, were undoubtedly run off. From the number that have reliably been reported to exist, the number appears to have been in the region of twenty to twenty-five sets. Aleister Crowley was supposed to have had one, as well as the silent film comedian Harold Lloyd and Joseph von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich's director and one-time lover. Charles Reginald Dawes, the last great English collector of erotica, had two sets, one of which was destroyed the the British Customs and the other going eventually to the British Library in 1964. Lord Louis Mountbatten's brother, the 2nd marquess of Milford Haven, certainly possessed a copy for it exists currently in a fine London collection and contains his bookplate. There is a copy in Geneva, another in Hamburg and at least two in New York. The Grove Press reprint of 1966 is the first complete edition to be openly available. It was prepared from an eleven-volume typescript made directly from the copy in Hamburg referred to above. All subsequent reprints stem, legally or otherwise, from this. Gershon Legman's Introduction to the Grove Press reprint is a mine of fascinating information, and includes a closely argued case for My Secret Life having been written by Henry Spencer Ashbee, the famous Victorian bibliographer and collector of erotica. The present compiler is unable to share this view, but thinks it likely that Ashbee was involved in seeing it through the press on behalf of somebody else. A number of reprints followed the Grove Press edition. Some are listed below, and others were published by Brandon House of North Hollywood and Pendulum Books of Atlanta, Georgia. A complete French translation is currently under weigh. Two attempts to publish a reprint in the United States in the 1930's failed due to police action. The first, which began about 1932, followed the original edition as to title and imprint and got as far as volume three before the project was shut down. A copy with 100 original water colors by Clara Tice was auctioned by Parke-Bernet at New York in 1971. A second attempt took place about two years later, with a single volume called Marital Frolics (London [New York or Philadelphia]: For Distribution by Subscription Only [c. 1934]). This constituted an abridgment of volume 5, and was illustrated with ten plates by 'Malay.' A copy was likewise auctioned by Parke-Bernet in the same sale. ***PLEASE NOTE: These are heavy volumes in a box; please write for a quote on shipping; we will ship at cost. Cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear; slipcase is worn. Very Good. Nº de ref. del artículo: 5433
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MY SECRET LIFE. [Complete in Two Volumes; Vols. 1-6; 7-11]
Publicado por
Grove Press, New York, 1966
Antiguo o usado
Librería: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
2nd Printing. 8vos. Eleven volumes in two. xiii+2359pp., pagination continuous. Introduction by Gershon Legman. The first complete and public reprint of this classic Victorian erotic autobiography. Between approximately 1883 and 1895, someone, presumably an Englishman of means, had printed on the Continent an eleven-volume sexual autobiography limited, so he thought, to just six copies. Who the printer or publisher was has not been established with certainty but the most likely possibility is Auguste Brancart, a prolific publisher of erotica who began his career in the early 1880's in Bruxelles and toward the end of the decade moved to Amsterdam. Interestingly, the title page of My Secret Life has 'Amsterdam. Not for Publication' on it but in the sub rosa world of erotica publishing such indications are to be taken with a pinch of salt. The scarcity of the first edition of My Secret Life has been overstated; it certainly is a rare book, but it is not unique like Edward Sellon's The Ups and Downs of Life (1867) which exists in just two copies. More than six copies, as ordered, were undoubtedly run off. From the number that have reliably been reported to exist, the number appears to have been in the region of twenty to twenty-five sets. Aleister Crowley was supposed to have had one, as well as the silent film comedian Harold Lloyd and Joseph von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich's director and one-time lover. Charles Reginald Dawes, the last great English collector of erotica, had two sets, one of which was destroyed the the British Customs and the other going eventually to the British Library in 1964. Lord Louis Mountbatten's brother, the 2nd marquess of Milford Haven, certainly possessed a copy for it exists currently in a fine London collection and contains his bookplate. There is a copy in Geneva, another in Hamburg and at least two in New York. The Grove Press reprint of 1966 is the first complete edition to be openly available. It was prepared from an eleven-volume typescript made directly from the copy in Hamburg referred to above. All subsequent reprints stem, legally or otherwise, from this. Gershon Legman's Introduction to the Grove Press reprint is a mine of fascinating information, and includes a closely argued case for My Secret Life having been written by Henry Spencer Ashbee, the famous Victorian bibliographer and collector of erotica. The present compiler is unable to share this view, but thinks it likely that Ashbee was involved in seeing it through the press on behalf of somebody else. A number of reprints followed the Grove Press edition. Some are listed below, and others were published by Brandon House of North Hollywood and Pendulum Books of Atlanta, Georgia. A complete French translation is currently under weigh. Two attempts to publish a reprint in the United States in the 1930's failed due to police action. The first, which began about 1932, followed the original edition as to title and imprint and got as far as volume three before the project was shut down. A copy with 100 original water colors by Clara Tice was auctioned by Parke-Bernet at New York in 1971. A second attempt took place about two years later, with a single volume called Marital Frolics (London [New York or Philadelphia]: For Distribution by Subscription Only [c. 1934]). This constituted an abridgment of volume 5, and was illustrated with ten plates by 'Malay.' A copy was likewise auctioned by Parke-Bernet in the same sale. ***PLEASE NOTE: These are heavy volumes in a box; please write for a quote on shipping; we will ship at cost. Hardcovers in dust jackets, and housed in the publisher's slipcase. Light shelfwear; dust jackets have some moderate edgewear at the spines, and some creasing to the flaps; slipcase has light wear and dust soiling. Overall a Very Good set. Nº de ref. del artículo: 8839
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MY SECRET LIFE [Complete in Two Volumes; Vols. 1-6; 7-11] (First Edition)
Publicado por
Grove Press, New York, 1966
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Librería: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Nº de ref. del artículo: Collections-10
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