2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Book, Grub St. Stripped Bare, by Philip Pinkus, London Constable and Company 1968 The scandalous lives & pornographic works of the original Grub st. writers, together with the bottle songs which led to their drunkenness, the shameless pamphleteering which led them to Newgate Prison, & the continual pandering to public taste which put them among the first almost to earn a fitful living from their writing alone. First Edition; octavo 312p. frontispiece, 10 illustrations, bibliography, index, original cloth, dustjacket, VG (2 copies) ....plus; Ten Thousand Rare Books and Their Prices, compiled by Targ & Marks, New York, limited to 360 copies. Fine...plus; Book, Epitaphs: Quiant, Curious, and Elegant. With Remarks on the Obsequies of Various Nations, by Henry James Loaring, London, with owners autograph. About VG....plus; American Mottoes and Slogans, by George Shankle, 1941, New York, 183p. octavo, VG.
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