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The Letter B; or, Book Collecting
A beautiful gilt binding, yes – and look at that letter ‘B’! It’s in my logo and I had it adapted from this book. Slater writes very knowledgeably about the technical anatomy of books and also the foibles of collectors….
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Bar Broad; or, A Lush For Lust.
Now I don’t know what you’re expecting here but as I’ve got your attention there are two points I’d like to look at. Firstly this is a PBO – a paperback original, the first edition being this paperback rather than a…
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Not Actually Forbidden Love; or, For Women Only.
‘For Women Only’ claims the title, and as it was published in 1969 I suppose anything was possible. The come-on text on the cover must have had the publishers rolling over the desks with laughter – but that’s where the…
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Entitled to Love, or Egyptian Love.
‘Happily Ever After’… ‘The Devil Shed Tears’… ‘Love in Morocco’… she could conjure up a good title, could Countess Helene Magriska. Including her own, as it happens. Know as Enid Brockies to her friends, the pseudonymous scribe made East meets…
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East Meets West; or, The Lady in the Veil
In the first half of the twentieth century ‘East Meets West’ was a familiar theme in popular fiction. Written mainly by white women, a great deal of it was set in India and centred on the thrills ‘n’ spills of…
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