Gershon Legman’s Copy of a Bizarre Book
Women, I love you! A prose poem.
San Francisco: Allied Printing Trades Council, 1907 [i.e., 1935].
Price: $750.00
About the item
Full Obscurity Edition (unfinished). Cancel copyright slip on verso of title page dated 1935. Frontispiece portrait, 171, [1] pp. Printed slip at title page “Published by the Standley Gautereaux Foundation of Los Angeles, California”. 1 vols. 32mo. Gershon Legman’s Copy of a Bizarre Book. Red cloth with paper labels to spine and upper cover. Ownership signature of Gershon Legman, 1955. OCLC: 27237431 (6 locations).
Item #345511
Inscribed BY THE AUTHOR on the first blank, “To whoever reads of my love, may it enrich your life. S. Gautereaux, Los Angeles, Cal., March 1946”
A compendium of reflections in a prose style deeply influenced by Walt Whitman
On page 104, there is a cancel of one word, “Voltaire” appearing above the line containing the name Anthony Comstock.
From the library of the erotica scholar and collector Gershon Legman (1917-99), with his signature dated 1955.
