2005, ISBN: 9780890968079

Hardcover

New York: Grove Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear; slipcase is worn. Very Good. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney, with his small name sticker at the … More...

New York: Grove Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear; slipcase is worn. Very Good. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney, with his small name sticker at the bottom of the front pastedown. 8vo. 1st printing. Eleven volumes in two. Ixiii+2359pp., pagination continuous. Introduction by Gershon Legman. The first complete and public reprint of this classic Victorian erotic autobiography. Between approximately 1883 and 1895, someone, presumably an Englishman of means, had printed on the Continent an eleven-volume sexual autobiography limited, so he thought, to just six copies. Who the printer or publisher was has not been established with certainty but the most likely possibility is Auguste Brancart, a prolific publisher of erotica who began his career in the early 1880's in Bruxelles and toward the end of the decade moved to Amsterdam. Interestingly, the title page of My Secret Life has 'Amsterdam. Not for Publication' on it but in the sub rosa world of erotica publishing such indications are to be taken with a pinch of salt. The scarcity of the first edition of My Secret Life has been overstated; it certainly is a rare book, but it is not unique like Edward Sellon's The Ups and Downs of Life (1867) which exists in just two copies. More than six copies, as ordered, were undoubtedly run off. From the number that have reliably been reported to exist, the number appears to have been in the region of twenty to twenty-five sets. Aleister Crowley was supposed to have had one, as well as the silent film comedian Harold Lloyd and Joseph von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich's director and one-time lover. Charles Reginald Dawes, the last great English collector of erotica, had two sets, one of which was destroyed the the British Customs and the other going eventually to the British Library in 1964. Lord Louis Mountbatten's brother, the 2nd marquess of Milford Haven, certainly possessed a copy for it exists currently in a fine London collection and contains his bookplate. There is a copy in Geneva, another in Hamburg and at least two in New York. The Grove Press reprint of 1966 is the first complete edition to be openly available. It was prepared from an eleven-volume typescript made directly from the copy in Hamburg referred to above. All subsequent reprints stem, legally or otherwise, from this. Gershon Legman's Introduction to the Grove Press reprint is a mine of fascinating information, and includes a closely argued case for My Secret Life having been written by Henry Spencer Ashbee, the famous Victorian bibliographer and collector of erotica. The present compiler is unable to share this view, but thinks it likely that Ashbee was involved in seeing it through the press on behalf of somebody else. A number of reprints followed the Grove Press edition. Some are listed below, and others were published by Brandon House of North Hollywood and Pendulum Books of Atlanta, Georgia. A complete French translation is currently under weigh. Two attempts to publish a reprint in the United States in the 1930's failed due to police action. The first, which began about 1932, followed the original edition as to title and imprint and got as far as volume three before the project was shut down. A copy with 100 original water colors by Clara Tice was auctioned by Parke-Bernet at New York in 1971. A second attempt took place about two years later, with a single volume called Marital Frolics (London [New York or Philadelphia]: For Distribution by Subscription Only [c. 1934]). This constituted an abridgment of volume 5, and was illustrated with ten plates by 'Malay.' A copy was likewise auctioned by Parke-Bernet in the same sale. ***PLEASE NOTE: These are heavy volumes in a box; please write for a quote on shipping; we will ship at cost., Grove Press, 1966, 3, College Station, Texas: Texas A& M University Press, 1998. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxvi, 307, [3] pages. Minor soiling inside front cover and on fep near bottom. DJ has minor wear. Includes List of Maps, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes chapters on The Window on the Atlantic; The Demand for Casablanca; The Specter of de Gaulle; The Riddle of the Rock; September Shifts; October Illusions; Winter Collapse I: Iberia; Winter Collapse II: France; and Passing the Torch. Also contains 2 frontispiece maps, one of Morocco, 1940-42, and one of Northwest Africa, June 1940-Novermber 1942. Norman J. W. Goda (born 1961) is an American historian specialized in the history of the Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He is a professor of history at the University of Florida, where he is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies. Goda is the author of several books on the international policy of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. He also serves as a historical consultant for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group of the United States National Security Archive, tasked with reviewing the previously-classified intelligence documents of the World War II and its aftermath. Goda is the co-author of the book U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, which was published in 2005 by the Cambridge University Press and based on the materials that were declassified under the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The author questions both the more traditional interpretations that Hitler's Germany operated from unplanned opportunism and that its aims were confined to the European continent. His extremely close reading of the diplomatic and military sources from German, Spanish, and French records also opens new windows on the policies of Franco's Spain and Petain's France. By focusing on policy formulation and implementation at the political and diplomatic level, he adds substantial evidence for the view that Hitler's ambitions were not just grandiose table talk, but formed the basis for concrete military plans and building projects. Military historians and scholars of World War II will welcome this assiduously researched and well-crafted study for the light it throws on some of the classic arguments of the period. As early as the 1920s Adolf Hitler argued that his struggle for dominance would be worldwide. Before war began in Europe, Berlin had already placed contracts for a massive surface navy and four-engine bombers that could cross the Atlantic. Norman J. W. Goda traces the documentary evidence of Germany's long-term plans to extend its conquests to America. This cogently argued book focuses on Germany's secret efforts to gain base sites for the new navy and long-range bombers in French North West Africa, Spain's Canary Islands, and Portugal's Azores and Cape Verde Islands. During this period Hitler rated the base issue a higher priority than the efficient prosecution of the war against Great Britain and second only to the Eastern Campaign. In the end, Berlin failed to gain base sites. The effort antagonized Spain and France, pushing them away from a more actively pro-German stance. Germany also misjudged America's capability to capture the sites and consequently left Northwest Africa relatively unprepared for the Allied invasion of 1942., Texas A& M University Press, 1998, 3<

1998, ISBN: 9780890968079

College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 1998 Hard Cover. As early as the 19… More...

College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 1998 Hard Cover. As early as the 1920s Adolf Hitler argued that his struggle for dominance would be worldwide. Before war began in Europe, Berlin had already placed contracts for a massive surface navy and four-engine bombers that could cross the Atlantic. Norman J. W. Goda traces the documentary evidence of Germany's long-term plans to extend its conquests to America., Texas A & M University Press, 1998, 3.5<

1998, ISBN: 9780890968079

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1998, ISBN: 9780890968079

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