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Streetwalker.
by ANON but maybe Jonathan GASH!
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Bodley Head. London. 1959. The Bodley Head. London. 1959. DW. From the front flap you would suppose this book was written by a young woman, who for ten months was a prostitute in the West End of London. Many believe this to have been written as a work of fiction by Jonathan Gash [Jonathan Grant] If this is true, as Harrington's believe, it is his first work and predates the first Lovejoy novel by 18 years. Gash did work as a GP and doctor in London so...The book in addition to the normal pink plain wrapper which is messily price-clipped has a very well done handmade cover-story wrapper - wittily titled "Komm-Mit No Nuisance." The original owner did not want someone to know what they were actually reading! pages are slightly browned and wrapper is slightly worn to extremities otherwise a clean and sound copy. I have priced this to reflect the middle ground between the average price for those who don't think it was a work by Gash (he has denied authorship) and those that do but also take into account the splendid extra wrapper.While trying to research this I came across the history of Dean Koontz's early works before he became a best selling horror writer. Evidently he wrote about 30 pornographic and gothic romance books, some with his wife Gerda, in order to make a living - the most famous and the only pornographic one he publically admitted to writing - is "Hung" by Leonard Chris. This now sells for up to $1,000.00. Even after 35 years as a bookseller I still get so much joy from learning things like this.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Addyman Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85009
- Title
- Streetwalker.
- Author
- ANON but maybe Jonathan GASH!
- Book Condition
- Used
- Date Published
- The Bodley Head. London. 1959
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, DIARIES and LETTERS streetwalker prostitution sex worker
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Addyman Books
Biblio member since 2006
Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
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