Legman Introduction (17 results)

Good reading copy wraps only.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Teal cloth hardcover shows only the slightest wear. DJ appears faded at spine and front fold with wear at edges and light rubbing. THIS IS NUMBER #899 OF A MALEDICTA PRESS LIMITED EDITION. 25 pages are clean and tight. 1 pound.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 4to 11" - 13" tall; Minor rubbing, creasing, and edgewear to the covers and spine with a 2 inch tear to the bottom of the front hinge.

paperback. Condition: Good. volumes 1 through 11 in one volume in slipcase Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Black slipcase, H 33.75cm x L 25cm, rubbed with patches of abrasion and white streaks; slender wear at insert side edges; short tear to one top seam but otherwise seams are firm; some staining/soiling to side panels' labels. Paperback: H 33cm x L 24.75cm. White paper covers with some toning and soiling; nicks/scuffs at edges; vertical creasing to well toned spine. Some toning to text block edges. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.25 pounds (2.38 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Printing. (1968) 698+pp. Original pictorial white wraps, lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Crease to spine. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. This book is limited, though the total number is not noted. This is copy # 369. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in generally clean condition, but has noticeable patches of fading, some light generalized rubbing, and there are a couple of small semi-closed tears (mostly to the top edge).

Hardcover. Condition: very good. No Jacket. Stated First Edition. NOT ex library books. Books with black cloth binding have creases on spine. 2359 total pages. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Octavo, 25 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is blue with white print. Dust jacket in mylar. Mild edge wear, rubbing, toning to spine. Price unclipped: "$25". Boards in green cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block ha small surface tear to front pastedown, light musty odor. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1395207. FP New Rockville Stock. First edition; Limited edition, number 240.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade PB. Folio. Published by Grove Press, New York. 1966. 11 volumes in 1. Lxiii, 2359 pgs. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Originally published anonymously in Amsterdam about 1890, this is a reprint of the entire two-volume Grove Press hardback edition of the work. "My Secret Life is one of the longest erotic autobiography ever written." "This is the first one-volume edition of one of the rare books of all time. His work was originally printed privately by the author late in the nineteeenth century, in an edition limited to six copies, only three which are known to exist today." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages.

Set Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volume I: Volumes I-VI. Volume II: Volumes VII-XI.

Hardcover. First Edition: Limited to 1000 copies. 5.5 x 7in. 542pp.; 587pp.; 589pp. Publisher's cloth boards. All 3 volumes are in FINE/AS NEW condition in Near Fine slipcase. The books themselves are flawless. The slipcase shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, otherwise remains strong, bright and distinct. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Three volumes in a very good green paper-covered slipcase with mild edgewear and rubbing. The three volumes are Index Librorum Prohibitoru (542 pp.), Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (591 pp.) and Catena Librorum Tacendorum (593 pp.). All have tan cloth-covered boards,7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, gilt spine lettering (bright) and a yellow ribbon marker. Partially unopened. Fine (neat signature of previous owner on the front free endpaper of Volume I and Volume II; mild sunning, spines). (1722RO003).

Condition: Near fine. Limited edition. Limited De Luxe edition of 1000 copies. Facsimile of original publication done in London 1877-1885. Octavo. 7 1/8 x 5 3/4" Beige buckram with green leather labels, in slipcase. Three volumes: Volume I: Index Librorum Prohibitoru, 543 pages; Volume II: Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, 593 pages; Volume III: Catena Librorum Tacendorum, 594 pages. Each volume includes preliminary remarks, notes, index, errata, etc. Books are in about fine condition, but slipcase has some wear and soiling.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. facsimile reproduction. Three volumes, (a reproduction of the work originally published in London 1877-1885) absent orginal title pages and illustrations. Limited to 1000 copies of this deluxe edition (as indicated on slipcase). Each volume with cream colored linen cloth covers with gilt titles on spine on a red field; each volume with a bound-in yellow ribbon marker. Volume I: Index Librorum Prohibitoru, 543 pages. Volume II: Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, lx + 593 pages. Volume III: Catena Librorum Tacendorum, lxvii + 594 pages. Volumes include preliminary remarks, epigraphs, additions, on quoting authorities, authorities consulted, index, errata. Books are in near fine condition. Slipcase has some scuffing, still very good. 060299A Bibliography, Erotica, Curiosa, Books About Books.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon état. In-4 étroit 25,5 x 15 cm. Reliure éditeur pleine toile noire, titre argent sur le dos, 354 pp., 1920 ouvrages référencés, index. Exemplaire en bon état. Texte en anglais.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Grove, 1966. First edition. First printing. Hardbound in slipcase. Both volumes, very good in a very good jacket. Slipcase near fine, some slight rubbing. A clean tight set. Book are tight, bright, unmarked, a couple of small spots on fore-edge, pages clean. The jacket is clean with small tears and slight bumping to crown. 8vo. Ixiii+2359pp., pagination continuous. Introduction by Gershon Legman. The first complete and public reprint of this classic Victorian erotic autobiography, penned between approximately 1883 and 1895 by an Englishman of means. In the USA it was finally published without censorship in 1966 by Grove Press, but in 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years' prison for producing a UK reprint. The identity of "Walter" is unknown. The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834 1900). He was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert on erotic books in his day. Gershon Legman was the first to link "Walter" and Ashbee, in his introduction to the 1962 reprints of Ashbee's bibliographies, and the 1966 Grove Press edition of My Secret Life included an expanded version of that essay.