My Secret Life by Walter, First Edition (5 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. first edition book is tight with no markings, some tanning to page edges, wraps have some rubbing and light soiling, edges have curling/creasing.

Paperback. 512p., bios, preface, very good expurgated first mass-market paperback edition in decorative green and pink wraps. Ballantine Books U8006. Originally published in both unexpurgated hardcover and this paperback which is abridged.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. First omnibus edition hardback, 1993, with red and black leatherette boards and no jacket as published. In overall near fine condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unread; no annotations or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Retains original black satin page marker. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Grove, 1966. First edition. First printing. Hardbound in slipcase. Both volumes, very good in a very good jacket. Slipcase near fine, some slight rubbing. A clean tight set. Book are tight, bright, unmarked, a couple of small spots on fore-edge, pages clean. The jacket is clean with small tears and slight bumping to crown. 8vo. Ixiii+2359pp., pagination continuous. Introduction by Gershon Legman. The first complete and public reprint of this classic Victorian erotic autobiography, penned between approximately 1883 and 1895 by an Englishman of means. In the USA it was finally published without censorship in 1966 by Grove Press, but in 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years' prison for producing a UK reprint. The identity of "Walter" is unknown. The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834 1900). He was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert on erotic books in his day. Gershon Legman was the first to link "Walter" and Ashbee, in his introduction to the 1962 reprints of Ashbee's bibliographies, and the 1966 Grove Press edition of My Secret Life included an expanded version of that essay.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . 1st Printing. 11 volume set, complete. In polypropylene bag. (erotica, erotic, sex, sexuality) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.