Chronicle
n.p. [i.e. Paris]: privately printed [at the Lecram-Press], n.d., [ca. 1932]. Second edition, limited to 700 copies (after 300 copies in the first), square 8vo, pp. 225, [3]; gray paper-covered boards, printed labels on upper cover and spine, paper cracking at the bottom of the spine, underlining in pencil throughout; very good. A privately printed, pseudonymous, and erotic novel from the author, publisher, and lexicographer Eric Partridge. He requested that his authorship of the book be kept secret until his death, stating in a letter to William R. Cagle, "When I'm gone I'd like it slipped unobtrusively among my books. It belongs to an unregenerate period of my life; not that I'm ashamed of it." Item #51183
Price: $250.00
