Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Good+, with a Fair dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket, including chips and tears. 2 inch tear at crown of jacket. Rubbing to jacket. Edgewear to boards, including bumps and 1 inch tear to crown at spine. Rubbing to boards. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Language: English
Published by The Casanova Society, 1926
Seller: Hampstead Books, Haverfordwest, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair/Good. No. 686/1500, "one of 1,500 copies on deckle-edged laid paper watermarked Antique de Luxe of which 1,430 were for sale in England and the United States." Soiling to beige boards, corners rubbed, fading gilt titles on spine, toning/foxing to end papers, foxing largely confined to end papers, pages clean, binding tight. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day.
Language: English
Published by Rarity Press, New York, 1931
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. 2nd Edition. X, 180 (+ 4 Pp Bibliography At End). Red Cloth. Second English Language Edition (1St Was In 1926). Lightly Used Book, Top Edge Dusty With 3 Tiny Waterspots. Printed Dj Clean, Tiny Losses At Corners , 3/16" Loss Across Top Of Spine, Three 1/4" V-Chips On Top Edge.
Published by Boni and Liveright
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. octavo; (1922); 222 pp (including bibliography); no dustjacket, black stamped paper label, green cloth; Very Good+; label small chip one corner, few small soil spots, slight edgewearslight crease and rust mark from paper clip to endpaper, light writing in pencil to two pages; else tight clean copyHardcover.
Published by The Casanova Society, London, 1926
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition. First impression of the Limited edition - 'one of 1,500 copies on deckle-edged laid paper watermarked "Antique de Luxe" of which 1,430 were for sale in England and the United States. One of a numbered limited edition - this copy being unnumbered, and is consequently out of series. Translated into English from the French by Ezra Pound, with a twelve-page postscript by Ezra Pound at the back of the book. ***Very good in buff cloth-covered boards over a blue-grey spine, with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Corners slightly bumped. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine of boards slightly faded and rubbed. All edges of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut and produced with high-quality thick paper). Internally also very good, with an owner's name and address ink stamp to the top of the front free endpaper. Very light sporadic foxing to prelims and last few pages. Very small light foxing mark to top of some text pages which are mostly clean. Spine tight. ***In a good only beige printed dustwrapper, with mauve titles and decorative borders to the front panel - priced at 21s. net on the front panel. The dustwrapper is quite rubbed at th edges, and quite heavily foxed and marked. The front panel also has a few light sporadic watery red ink speckles. There is some splitting to the fragile dustwrapper along the edges of the spine. The spine of the dustwrapper is browned and faded. Head and tail of spine rubbed with small chips. Short closed tear to the top edge of the back panel. One-inch closed tear to the bottom corner of the back panel. Small chip and closed tear to the top corner of the front panel. Small chip to the bottom corner of the front panel. Small chip and associated closed tear to the top edge of the dustwrapper adjoining the head of the spine. Off-setting marks from old sellotape (now removed) to the edges of the back of the dustwrapper. ***183 pages - including a detailed twelve-page postscript by Ezra Pound and a three-page bibliography at the back of the book. 264mm x 204mm. ***'This remarkable work of research by one of Europe's foremost men of letters is a careful scientific inquiry into the subject of sex in relation to man and the lower animals. It deals in a fresh and masterly way with the biological basis of the sexual instinct. ***All phases of the sexual ceremony are here discussed; the quaint and curious customs among obscure tribes, many of them ritualistic in nature, are treated. The physical manifestations of sexual love, its organic and mechanistic faculties, are carefully analyzed in relation to its psychological factors.' (Quote taken from the front panel of the dustwrapper) ***The first British edition of American modernist poet Ezra Pound's (1885-1972) translation of the French Symbolist Remy de Gourmont's (1858-1915) treatise on sex within the animal kingdom. A limited edition work, produced on quality antique laid paper - a scarce find in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to the early works of the American Modernist poet Ezra Pound. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.