The Unspeakable Curll by Ralph Straus - 1970: Being Some Account of Edmund Curll, Bookseller, to Which is Added a Full List of His Books (The English Book Trade)

Scholar's Bookshelf. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Augustus M. Kelley, New York, 1970 reprint of 1927 first edition. Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm,. 322 pp, ills. From a - contemporary review: "The story of Curll and his "top-shelf" books - his obscenities, his effronteries and evasions, his chastisements and his triumphs - has been told before, but never with this knowledge, this wealth of illustration, this unfeigned and unconcealed sympathy with the humour and vitality of - an irrepressible scoundrel. The story deserves a wider circulation than can be given by 500 copies at two guineas. But we have no quarrel with the publisher, for the book is elaborately documented. And the documents are important both in themselves and for the methods of investigation which they unfold. Many books which are wll known from contemporary evidence to have been CurlI's Property, or of his procuring, do not bear his name. But he published lists of his books both separately and in the newspapers. These lists Mr. Straus has rightly made the basis of his… Read More

A. M. Kelley, 1970. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Small tear in free endpaper. Otherwise like new. 322 p. Reprints of Economic Classics. Audience: General/trade.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.