Illinois; Dalkey Archive Press, 1993., 1993. Hard Cover. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo, pp. [144]. Illustrated throughout by Francesco Clemente. Publishers' black cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped white pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips lightly rubbed; a little foxing to top edge; contents clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket creased to head of spine. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. Sixty-one short vignettes on the subject of masturbation, with various ages and locations featured in prose that is "playful, intimate, urgent, quirky, and humane" (from jacket rear flap). Originally published as a limited edition by Grenfell Press, New York in 1988.

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Bookseller: Keel Row Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8778
Title: Singular Pleasures.
Author: Mathews, Harry
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Illinois; Dalkey Archive Press, 1993.
Date Published: 1993
Keywords: Fiction

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Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
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