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Verlag: Sophistocles Press,, London,, 1928
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Paperback Edition. 4to. pp 16. Paperback. Original publisher's dusky pink covers, lettered black. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. No date, [1928]. Some tanning at spine and front edges with slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise sound, close very good with very clean text and plates.
Verlag: Hermes Press,,, London,, 1928
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. 30 unnumbered pages. Yellow printed thin card wraps.Buff parchment over boards. pp 5 preface by P. R. Stephensen, six full page black and white illustrations by Beresford Egan, anonymous verse lampoon 'by several hands.' A libertarian riposte to the indignant tabloid-fuelled outrage surrounding the publication and suppression of Radclyffe HallÕs lesbian romance ÔThe Well of Loneliness.Õ Slight rusting from staples at spine, some minor surface wear and some rubbing, sound used near vg copy.
Verlag: London: The Sophistocles Press. [], 1929
Anbieter: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First trade edition. Publisher's original pink card wrappers with title printed in black. Illustrated with 7 black and white full-page drawings by Beresford Egan. A near very good copy, the binding firm with dust soiling to the covers, wear to the extremities and chipping to the spine. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, foxing to the endpapers and the occasional mark to page margins are otherwise in good order. The drawings remain clean and bright. Percy Reginald Stephensen (1901-1965) was an Australian writer, publisher and political activist, first for the Communists and later for far-right groups. In this satirical work he mocks the Conservative politician Sir William Joynson-Hicks, who was well-known for his authoritarianism, his campaigns against Communism and his attempts to clamp down on nightclubs and what he saw as the indecent literature of the roaring twenties (or, what he termed "the flood of filth coming across the Channel"). Notably, he was heavily implicated in the banning of Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928), as well as in forcing the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover in an expurgated version. As D.H. Lawrence was a good friend of Stephensen, this was perhaps part of the reason for the present satire. Egan's drawings, greatly influenced by the work of Aubrey Beardsley and imbued with the spirit of 1920s decadence, provide the perfect riposte to Joynson-Hick's reactionary moralising. Provenance: from the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.