Estate Books & Ephemera Online Only Auction
Lot 345:
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20 Books on Sex, Homosexuality and Eroticism including Sinful Cities of the Western World by Hendrik de Leeuw published by Citadel Press New York c. 1945 7th edition; Angela – The Story of a Strange Woman by Jean Blanche c. 1955 in original dust jacket; Lovely Ladies – The Art of Being a Woman Volume II by Dare Frances published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc Garden City NJ c. 1929 1st edition; The Dangerous Sex – The Myth of Feminine Evil by H.R. Hays c. 1964; Celestine – Being the Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau published by William Faro, Inc. New York c. 1932 3rd edition; Victorian Sensations by Horace Wyndham c. 1933 2nd edition; Jou Pu Tuan – A Seventeenth Century Erotic Moral Novel by Li Yu c. 1963 in original dust jacket; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by Peter Quennell c. 1963 in original dust jacket; On Understanding Women by Mary R. Beard c. 1931 stated 1st edition; The Gay Ones by Eve Linkletter published by Fabian Books Fresno c. 1960 3rd edition (paperback); Cicily Martin by Herself published by the Venus Library c. 1972 1st edition (paperback); Juvenile Delinquency – Report of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Made by its Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency c. 1957 (paperback); Juvenile Delinquency (Obscene and Pornographic Materials) Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate c. 1955 (paperback); The First Masochist – A Biography of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch c. 1967; The Grapevine – A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian by Jess Stearn published by Doubleday & Co. Inc. Garden City NJ c. 1964 1st edition with original dust jacket; The Gay World – Male Homosexuality and the Social Creation of Evil by Martin Hoffman published by Basic Books Inc. New York c. 1968 in original dust jacket; Collection "Hippocrate" – Le Travestissement – Essai de Psycho-Pathologie Sexuelle (Cross-Dressing – Essay in Sexual Psycho-Pathology) by Dr. Agnes Masson published by Le Francois Paris c. 1935 (paperback); Somewhere Between the Two by Jay Little c. 1956 with original dust jacket; Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella c. 1992; and Napoleon – Bisexual Emperor by Major-General Frank Richardson, M.D. Combined lot measures approximately 13."5×9.5"x10.5".
Condition: Condition – Good to Very Good unless otherwise stated – Somewhere Between the Two – Loss to dust jacket, toning to endpapers, top edge lightly soiled; Le Travestissement – wear around edges, corners bumped, spine loss; The Grapevine – some wear to dust jacket around edges, lightly soiled. Cloth cover has some discoloration around edges. Flyleaf torn / missing. Toning to end papers; The First Masochist – loss to spine, toning; Juvenile Delinquency (both volumes) – covers soiled, foxing, some loss to covers; Cicily Martin – toning to pages; The Gay Ones – Toning to pages; On Understanding Women – blue cloth cover soiled at top. Light wear to corners, edges and spine. Spine faded. Contents clean and tight; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasue – dust jacket has some wear around edges, foxing. Spine and cover have some discoloration. Contents clean and tight; Jou Pu Tuan – loss to edges of dust jacket, foxing. Contents clean and tight; Victorian Sensations – green cloth cover faded with some stains. Foxing throughout. Binding tight; Celestine – loss to cover and spine, spine faded. Contents clean and tight; Lovely Ladies – cloth cover stained and soiled. Corners, head and tail bumped with some wear. Spine faded. Foxing on end papers. Contents clean and tight; Angela – loss, soiling and wear to dust jacket; cloth cover lightly soiled, toning to first and last few pages. Edges soiled; Sinful Cities – blue cloth cover has some wear and faded. Hinge split but intact. Please see photos.
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