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Love & Death: A Study In Censorship
by LEGMAN, G
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
(New York): Breaking Point, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, hardcover issue, one of a very few hardbound copies intended for Legman's use and never offered for sale. Octavo. 95pp. About fine in lightly sunned very good or better dust jacket. Full-page Inscription from Legman to Alan Anderson, owner of the Tragara Press in Edinburgh, with Anderson's bookplate on front pastedown: "For Alan Anderson, Esq in all admiration of his bibliographical flair for what is hard to find, with the sincere compliments of G. Legman, Edinburgh, 3 June 1959, ten years later." The first edition of this pioneering monograph, which examines in Legman's combative style the curious social anomaly which allows unhindered in art the most graphic expression of violence, whilst equally graphic descriptions of sexuality are suppressed. Legman at first experienced great difficulty in finding a publisher for this work, and to prove the point a list of the over forty publishers who rejected it is appended to the second edition, which was published in 1963 by Seymour Hacker. Extracts appeared prior to publication in Jay Landesman's periodical, *Neurotica*.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 540767
- Title
- Love & Death: A Study In Censorship
- Author
- LEGMAN, G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Breaking Point
- Place of Publication
- (New York)
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- LitCrit, Sexuality, BookCollecting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book Collecting;
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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