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May 27, 2015 12:00 PM - June 7, 2015 04:00 PMCalender
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Erotica, Approximately Fifty-four Volumes, Late 19th to Early 20th Century.

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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2819TLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 27, 2015 12:00PM

Description:

Erotica, Approximately Fifty-four Volumes, Late 19th to Early 20th Century.
Including: Whidden Graham's Crimson Hairs, New York, 1934; Symonds's Studies in Sexual Inversion, 1928; Sanger Brown's Sex Worship and Symbolism, Boston: Badger, [1922]; The Old Man Young Again, Paris: Carrington, 1898; Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Paris: Black Sun, 1929; Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, New York, 1929, with the gold dust jacket; The Doris Love Club, The American Institute of Pornography, 1931; The Perfumed Garden of Cheikh Nefzaoui, Cosmopoli: for the Kama Shastra Society, 1886; Chaddock's Psychopathia Sexualis, Philadelphia: Davis, 1892; The Way of a Virgin, London: Brovan Society, 1922; Proal's Passion and Criminality, Paris: Carrington, [n.d.]; and others.
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

Paris, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Wild Party, Doris Love Club, The American Institute of Pornography, American Institute of Pornography, Kama Shastra Society, Philadelphia, London, Brovan Society