New York: Brandywine Press, 1970

8vo, pp. 517. Original cream coarse grain boards, lettered in red to spine. Tan endpapers. Leading edge uncut. Brown unprinted dust jacket, manufacturer's slip stapled to front flap. Top edge a little dusty, but a near fine copy in a dust jacket which is sunned at the spine and to portions of the rear panel.

First US edition. First published in France in 1953 by Les Hautes Etudes. COMPILER AND EDITOR GERSHON LEGMAN'S COPY, WITH HIS NAME AND ADDRESS TO FRONT PASTEDOWN, AND HIS PENCILLED NOTES TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

Encyclopaedic, definitive collection of the verse form, with 1700 examples, all of them filthy, and compiled over many years by Gershon Legman, erotic biblio-historian extraordinaire. First published in Paris in 1953, when such a book was legally unpublishable elsewhere, and here reprinted by the Brandywine Press of New York seventeen years later.

Legman's own copy, in which he has written his name and return address in the event of the book being borrowed. And with his usual ferocious attention to minutiae, Legman's pencilled notes to the front free endpaper give details of the book's binding and print specifications.