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An Oxford thesis on love : in which L. Erectus Mentulus Ph.D., late fellow of Oxford College, draws from his various experiences for the instruction, entertainment and greater zest of his colleagues, friends and admirers.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PN6071.E7 W55 1938
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, Lupton Allemong.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Fiction.
- Sex customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Erotica -- United States -- 1938.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mauchly, John W. (John William), 1907-1980 (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 122 leaves of plates, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Taos, N.M. : Done into a book by the hand of the author, 1938.
- Notes:
- Authorship attributed to Lupton A. Wilkinson who gathered his Mentulus stories and issued them together in 1938 in a mimeographed form complete with erotic photographs. Cf. The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (2006), v.1, p. 739.
- "One hundred copies done into a book by the hand of the author, Taos, New Mexico, July1938."
- Issued with a hand-colored lithograph frontispiece possibly by Emil Ganso and twelve(?) black & white photographs (sepia or b/w silver gelatin prints).
- Stencilled typescript.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy removed from the John W. Mauchly Papers held by the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- Penn Libraries copy is unbound with mutilated paper covers retained.
- Penn Libraries copy with internal black paper (guard?) sheets retained.
- Penn Libraries copy housed with containing envelope from Remington-Rand Inc., Ekert-Mauchly Division.
- OCLC:
- 55134714
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