My Secret Life
de Anonymous
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good Condition/Good
- Librería
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Seraucus, New Jersey, USA : Castle Books, 1966. Complete and Unexpurgated Edition. Hardcover (Half Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Large Book - between A4 and A3. Binding is tight but spine is slightly cocked Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers are faintly foxed, text clean Edges very slightly spotted or marked Both top and bottom of spine have very small grooves caused by insect damage "My Secret Life" is the extensive memoir of one gentleman's sexual experiences and developments in Victorian England. Representing a frank and open exploration of sexuality and other interesting facets of Victorian life, this memoir is arguably a unique and insightful social document, described as "one of the strangest and most obsessive books ever written".
This book is a reprint of the entire two-volume Grove Press hard-cover edition of the work.
This book is a reprint of the entire two-volume Grove Press hard-cover edition of the work.
Sinopsis
A rare look at the hidden side of Victorian lifeFrom his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his "amatory career," an adventurous Victorian known only as "Walter" records a breathtaking carnal epic through hundreds of sexual encounters during an era of notorious repression.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 53472
- Título
- My Secret Life
- Autor
- Anonymous
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (Half Cloth)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Complete and Unexpurgated Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Castle Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Seraucus, New Jersey, USA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1966
- Páginas
- 2359
- Peso
- 99.99 libras
- Palabras clave
- Erotica Victorian England, erotica, sexuality, sexual mores
- Size
- Large Book - between A4 and A3
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.