“GRUSHENKA - 3 TIMES A WOMAN” EROTIC BOOK.
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Winning Bid:
$253.00 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
5
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:00:00 PM)
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Auction:
Auction #199 - Part II
Item numbers 973 through 2378 in auction 199
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Item Description
7.25x9.25” hardcover binding of a previously softcover book done long ago. Privately published in 1933 in Dijon, France. This is a hand-numbered edition of 800. “The Edition Consists Of 800 Copies Of Which It Is Hoped 400 Will Reach The United States, And 250 Will Reach England. The Remaining 150 Copies, Numbered 1 To 150, Are For Continental Distribution.” This is No. 74 of that 150 copy edition distributed in Europe. Book notes “Illustrations By A Young Russian Residing In Paris, Who Unfortunately Must Remain Anonymous.” In addition to erotic prose story, there are seven glossy bw illustrated pages depicting explicit scenes of sex and nudity. Book shows handling wear with aging to hand-lettered paper label title on spine. Fine with VF/Exc. pages. Author is supposedly Val Lewton, the well-known film producer responsible for several 1940s low-budget horror movies. Comes with fragile 8.5x12” promotional sheet which reads in part “’A Russian Woman Is Three Times A Woman’ Old Russian Proverb - Announcing The Arrival From Paris Of The Second And Final Shipment Of 150 Copies Of Three Times A Woman – ‘Grushenka’.” Promo sheet is dated Jan. 2, 1933 at bottom. Folded horizontally at center as likely issued with heavy wear including chips, tears and aging at margins. Good/VG and just comes along.
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