[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited Edition of landmark of lesbian literature
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Fri Dec 30 13:34:15 EST 2005
From our Holiday Catalogue now posted on our website
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containing 127 select items including a selection of fine bindings and Limited
Editions Club titles, and a large selection of signed books by Susan B. Anthony,
P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie, Clarence Darrow, Albert Einstein, Jacqueline
Kennedy, Thomas Mann, Thomas Merton, Ronald Reagan, John Steinbeck, and more.
HALL, Radclyffe. THE WELL OF LONELINESS. New York: Covici-Friede
1929. The Victory Edition consisting of two large octavo volumes
(6-1/4" x 9-3/4") bound in silver-stamped yellow cloth and blue
boards printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. Copy #145 of only 225
copies SIGNED by the author. A pioneering book dealing with
lesbianism that was the subject of an obscenity trial in England in
1928. Slipcase mostly present with some repairs. Fine in a Good
slipcase lacking the top edge. $750.00
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