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New York, NY: Grove Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1965. Uncorrected Proof. Plastic comb binding. Overall wear from handling and slight abuse to cover edges. A bit of a wave to the text block. Top edges of covers are sunned. The review slip is worn at the edges.; An uncorrected proof copy of an "unusual" Grove Press book that begins in the middle of a sentence on page 7, this is a sarcastic, trashy, comic, vulgar, grotesque, and nonsensical work of humor that pushes a bit past the label of erotica. No mark of ownership, but this copy is from the library of Mark Schorer, Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. Professor Schorer was an expert witness for the defense when Grove Press was proscecuted for obsenity in 1959 over their publishing of the authorized, unexpurgated edition of Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence. Professor Schorer's testimony was essential in the court's establishment that the book had "redeeming social or… Read More