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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Paris Edition. No dust jacket. This is The Famour Paris Edition complete and unexpurgated. The largest collection of limericks ever published, erotic or otherwise. The seventeen hundred examples gathered here stem from some twenty printed sources dating from 1870 to 1952 and from three oral collections. A chronological list of the sources used follows and each limerick is dated. There is a full Index, of names and rhymes, and a few folklore parallels are made with explanations given. The chapter-titles are those of Lapes in Limerick, the Michigan collection.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the wraps, in gate-fold and protected further in onion-skin. From the library of Gershon Legman, as transmitted from his widow, the fabulous Judith Legman. 1700 limericks, all scurrilous. French language texts. Comprised of an anthology of sexually explicit limericks compiled by but not credited to the bibliopole, book scout, bibliographer and literary sleuth extraordinaire, Gershon Legman. 517 pp. and including full index. Plentiful unopened top and some fore-edges.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.