[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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