Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 359
HARRIS, Frank (1855?1931). My Life and Loves. Paris: Privat...
Estimate: $200 - $300
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HARRIS, Frank (1855?1931). My Life and Loves. Paris: Privately printed, 1922. 8vo. Illustrated, errata slip at rear. ?Imprime en Allemagne? stamped at tail of title page, end of text. Original publisher?s quarter cloth, lime green boards (sunning, soiling, cloth split at spine at front and rear, toning). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY HARRIS. Banned in both the United States and in Britain, My Life and Loves caused a firestorm of controversy for its explicit detailing of the author?s sexual activities and speculations on the sex lives of Oscar Wilde, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Randolph Churchill, and many others.
