William blatchford editor (6 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Reprint. Reprint. Reprint edition; originally published in 1890. Sound binding and hinges, bit of foxing to edges of pages. Pages are bright and clean, with no writing or marks except for previous owner's name on ffep. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has light overall shelf wear. Unexpurgated reminiscences written by Parisian courtesan. 9.25" tall; 186 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Dark green boards, gilt printing on spine. Boards clean, bright, light shelf wear, very small ding to front board. Binding tight, slight lean. Pages unmarked, no writing. Dust jacket with full color illustrations on front and back clean, bright, no stickers or markings, covered in new removable archival sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. As new.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. 8vo. 186 pages. Green cloth, gilt spine titles; color pictorial dust jacket. Negligible wear to exterior; interior lightly age-toned but unmarked; scattered small blemishes to jacket laminate, verso to spine head & tail reinforced with archival tape. A near fine copy in a very good plus jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($16.95) intact on front flap. This title, though purported to be written by the famously "passionate" Cora Pearl, "Grand Horizontal" was actually written by Derek Parker (a former chairman of the Society of Authors), who admittedly used the pseudonym "William Blatchford" to carry out the hoax. "Grand Horizontal" was published in 1983, claiming to be the lost erotic memoirs of Cora Pearl. but the attribution was a hoax. The Scholars treat the book today as erotic fiction and warn that Parker's approach frames Pearl as a literary object rather than re-creating her own voice. Cora Pearl (born Eliza Emma Crouch, c. 1836-1886) was a celebrated English courtesan who rose to fame in Paris during the Second Empire, known for her lavish lifestyle, theatrical entrances, and relationships with powerful men. She left behind genuine memoirs published in 1886, shortly before her death, which offer a more restrained and self-aware account than the later fabricated "Grand Horizontal.".…