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MEMOIRS OF A SINGER PAULINE: MEMOIRS OF AN OPERA SINGER
1937013148London: unidenitified 1937. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good . This adult novel defies bibliography. The author is obviously a pseudonym and the publisher is unidentified. OCLC lists no copy under any variation of its title in the time frame of its publishing date of 1937. The text suggests this could be an adaptation of "Pauline: Memoirs of an Opera Singer" or "Promiscuous Pauline The Memoirs of a German Opera Singer" which was first published by Gebrüder Franckh of Stuttgart in1829 and purportedly the memoir of the opera singer Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient the authorship attributed to Friedrich Bruckbräu. This copy was presumably privately published for private distribution as it includes 8 copper photographic plates in b&w which are sexually explicit even by today's standards. 8vo half purple leather over black and silver-striped covers gilt title to spine heavily textured endpapers edges untrimmed 380pp. Book edges moderately worn hinges revealed binding holding firm internals quite nice. A real curio that defies our ability in erotic bibliography. (unidenitified) hardcover
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