"The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books" 1964 DRESNER, Hal Bamboo

"The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books" 1964 DRESNER, Hal BambooDRESNER, Hal [192] pp. Simon And Schuster 1964 First Printing 8" x 5 1 2" Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin An author of racy novels heads to picturesque Vermont to finish his manuscriptbut finds his retreat less than peacefulin this bright, slapstick comedy (The New York Times). Told through a sequence of exchanged letters, this comic novel introduces softcore pornographer Guy LaDouche as he heads to the wilderness in the hope of solitude and

from the Studio of the Late Sir Cecil Beaton

With acknowledgments to the bartender's guide " Jack's Manual" "Americanus Ebriatatus"

Lord Chesterfield has an illegitimate son

it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history

--James Laver

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w/ 68 color plates

Rare collection of B&W promotional photographs

Frame Sz: 12"H x 18"W

this portrait of a young man who by reason of having bought himself a pair of resplendent white flannel trousers presently made his way from a small Illinois town that sneered at them to Palm Beach

Ltd ed of 999 published by Currier & Ives 1930

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