THE MEMOIRS OF DOLLY MORTON.
Philadelphia [?New York]: Society of Private Bibliophiles, 1904 [c. 1935?]. Original three-quarter cloth, gilt, patterned paper boards. Binding worn and spine bowed, but internally a clean copy.
Item #8185
8vo. pp. xi+236. No illustrations. An reprint of a work that first appeared openly in Paris in 1899 from the publisher Charles Carrington. Subsequent 'open' editions expurgated the sexual material but retained the more socially acceptable flagellation and violence. The present edition retains the sexual episodes. Set against the background of slavery in the United States in the mid-19th century, The Memoirs of Dolly Morton is generally thought to have been written by Georges Grassal, a symbolist poet and 'decadent'.
Price: $75.00