Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
AnonymousParis: Privately Printed [Charles Carrington], 1903.
First Edition.
20cm x 13cm. [iv], 276 pages. Wrappers, lettered paper labels.
English translation published by Carrington of, Souvenirs d’une Cocodette, first published in full clandestinely by Jules Gay in Brussels. Edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered on thin wove paper in plain brown wrappers, as suggested by Mendes in Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930, Carrington likely ran additional copies beyond the 200 on this thinner paper. MENDES 154(b)(iii).
Foxed. Creasing to front flyleaf. Good Condition.
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AU$300