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Mabel's Torments
by Dexter, Erle
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket As Issued
- Seller
-
Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris, France: Océanic Press, 1958. First Edition . Paperback. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition of the first title published by Océanic Press. Original grey card wrappers with red and black lettering. Minor tanning and marking to wrappers with slight fading to spine. Red dot on spine has been inked over for some unfathomable reason. Spotting and soiling to page edges. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. Established in 1958 to rival The Olympia Press, Océanic Press only lasted two years but managed to publish twenty-one titles in that short time, this being their first. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bath and West Books (PBFA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005748
- Title
- Mabel's Torments
- Author
- Dexter, Erle
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket As Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Océanic Press
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Adult & Erotic; Erotica; Sadomasochism; BDSM; Bondage; Fetish; Vintage Erotica;
Terms of Sale
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Book orders are professionally packed and shipped within 48 hours.
Returns accepted within 14 days of delivery but please contact us in first instance.
About the Seller
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Biblio member since 2009
Bath, Somerset
About Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Bath and West Books is an online/mail order business owned by Jo West and based just outside the city of Bath. I have been dealing in antiquarian and secondhand books since 2003 and I buy and sell books on a wide variety of subjects with particular interests in Literature and Poetry, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Modern Firsts, History, Politics, Children's and Illustrated Books, Travel, Art, Fine Bindings, Literary Sets, the Folio Society and anything unusual and interesting. Please visit www.BathandWestBooks.co.uk for further information. You can also follow us at Twitter.com/BathWestBooks.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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