[EROTICA] [CARRINGTON]

Untrodden Fields of Anthropology. Observations on the Esoteric Manners and Customs of Semi-Civilized Peoples; being a Record of Thirty Years' Experience in Asia, Africa, America and Oceania. By a French Army-Surgeon

[N.p., s.i.; Privately Published, ca. 1930s]. No. 141 of the numbered, limited edition of 500 copies (300 for America, 200 for England & the Continent). Undated facsimile reprint of the second Carrington edition (1898). Two octavo volumes; quarter-cloth of blue paper-covered boards; xl,[1]-343; xxiv,[1]-502pp. Boards slightly soiled, with a rather conspicuous ring-stain to front cover of v.II; else just lightly worn, and internally fine.

For "anthropology" read "prurient literature." For "untrodden" read "suspect." For "esoteric" read "naughty." For "customs" read "sex acts." For "French Army-Surgeon" read "Probably Charles Carrington." A classic Victorian erotic text, masquerading in the form of a French anthropological treatise, first brought out by Carrington in 1897 and here reprinted clandestinely, lacking any genuine imprint so as to foil the censors. Lacking an imprint, but almost certainly a production of one of the notorious New York bookleggers of the Thirties, the most likely suspects being Esar Levine's Panurge Press or the closely associated Falstaff Press, operated by Ben Rebhuhn. This was one of several Depression-era reprints.

Price: $150.00

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