THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE: A FRAGMENT **LIMITED EDITION**
by Sellon, Capt. Edward
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/As New
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Miami Beach: FL: Dennis McMillan, 1987. 1st American Edition, December 1987, so stated. LIMITED to 400 copies; 374 bound in cloth and 26 lettered copies bound in goatskin. A fine, unread copy still in shrinkwrap. Red cloth lettered in gold on the spine panel, decorated endpapers. Contains 8 colour reproductions of the original plates from the first edition. Introduction and Postscript by C. J. Scheiner. First published in London in 1867. It is the rarest erotic autobiography known. Only a single extant copy of the 1867 first edition is known and that is in a private collection, inaccesable to the general public. The text of this edition is an edited version of the first two printings of the text, originally published in 1867, correcting misspellings and obvious grammatical and syntactical errors found. Dustjacket and endpapers were designed by Joe Servello. . 1st American Edition. Cloth. New/As New. Illus. by Servello, Joe. Book.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020315
- Title
- THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE: A FRAGMENT **LIMITED EDITION**
- Author
- Sellon, Capt. Edward
- Illustrator
- Servello, Joe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st American Edition
- Publisher
- Dennis McMillan
- Place of Publication
- Miami Beach: FL
- Date Published
- 1987
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Limited Edition, Erotic, Small Press, Historical, True,
- Bookseller catalogs
- LIMITED EDITION;
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