Erotica & Censorship
Boulder & Normal, Black Ice Books (Fiction Collective Two), 1994. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering; publisher's decorated and printed dust jacket. 219 pp. Delany’s once‑suppressed novel, written 1969 - 1973 and issued here in its first hardcover publication. Notice from the dust jacket's rear panel: "Because it contains.....
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart / A Mario Sartori Book, [1987]. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards, copper stamped on spine. First edition. Frontispiece illustration. 119,[65] pp. First edition. A biography with 106 illustrations on 64 black & white plates. Author's preface, foreword by the Duke of Devonshire, epilogue by Sir.....
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New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. Victory edition. Tall octavos. Gold cloth, blue paper, embossed with silver Art Deco design stamped on upper panel and spine. Frontispiece portrait. Two volumes; xxiv, 506 pp. Top edge gilt, fore-edges uncut; spines sunned, silver gilt rubbed, as usual. A few preliminary leaves faintly foxed, else.....
London: The Hogarth Press, 1949. First edition, first impression. Plum colored cloth, gilt title and decoration. 109 pp. Sunned at spine, ownership inscription of Elizabeth Plunket Greene on front free endpaper, else very good, in the scarce Duncan Grant designed jacket, unclipped, with an internal reinforcement at the crown of.....
New York City: Privately Printed, 1927. Decorative paper over boards, orange paper back, spine stamped in black. 36 unpaginated pages, many unopened, glassine dust jacket. Edition limited to 125 copies, this copy unnumbered. Slight loss of color on bottom edge of spine (seems to be transferred to interior of glassine).....
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New York: John Springer Associates, Inc., [1981]. First edition. Quarto. [2],7 leaves, printed on rectos only. Mechanically reproduced typescript with pictorial cover sheet. Staple absent from extreme upper left corner, with rust staining left behind, otherwise very good. A studio PR firm's promotional release for John Waters's first film to.....