Sexuality & Erotica
London, Jarrolds, [1932].
First edition, first printing. 8vo. 39pp. publisher's catalogue dated Spring 1932 at end. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.
A tale of sacred & profane love, by an author best known for his science fiction, adventure stories, and historical fiction books for children. This definitely a more adult venture.
Modern Literature
First edition, first printing. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1936 'Radclyffe Hall has had the courage to set down the thoughts and conversations of her characters without censorship. Here is English as it is really spoken by the poor in cottage, field and inn' (dust-jacket) Dust-jacket by Edgar Holloway.
Sexuality & Erotica
London, Quality Press, 1945.
First English edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A disturbing work on the role of what the author perceived as rampant homosexuality in Germany, particularly in regard to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party, and the atrocities they were at best complicit in orchestrating.
Sexuality & Erotica
Translated by Charles Hope Lumley
New York, for William Godwin, 1933.
First US edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
The first US edition of the first English-language translation of this text, preceded by the Fortune Press edition of 1929, and the original French edition in 1901. Beresford Egan's characteristic illustrations reflect perfectly the wit & satirical glee of the text, a tale of the pursuit of amorous hedonism.
Sexuality & Erotica
A survey of flagellation in its historical anthropological and sociological aspects
London, Torchstream Books, 1950.
Eighth impression (extra-illustrated). 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.
'George Ryley Scott (6 October 1886[1] – c. 1980) was a prolific British author of books about sexual intercourse, active from the late 1920s to the 1970s.' (Wikipedia)
Sexuality & Erotica
London, Heinemann, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another 'South Wind' but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful 'Cakes and Ale' (Time Magazine, 1936)