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The Cradle of Erotica: A Study of Afro-Asian Sexual Expression and an Analysis of Erotic Freedom in Social Relationships
by Allen Edwardes & R.E.L. Masters
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good book with minor wear; fair dust jacket with notable wear and creases, chipping and close tears along edges and corners
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Julian Press, 1962. Second printing. Hardcover, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, red endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 362 pp. Very good book with minor wear; fair dust jacket with notable wear and creases, chipping and close tears along edges and corners, several ~1/4" sections displaced from edges, spine and joints. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2021
- Title
- The Cradle of Erotica
- Author
- Allen Edwardes & R.E.L. Masters
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Ellen Raskin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, red endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 362 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book with minor wear; fair dust jacket with notable wear and creases, chipping and close tears along edges and corners
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Julian Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- R.E.L. Masters, Allen Edwardes, Erotica, Cradle of Erotica
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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