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Eternal Moments: Stories of Life and Love. Signed copy.
by BRUNO, Guido (pseudonym of Curt Josef Kisch), with illustrations by Clara Tice
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: [Guido Bruno], 1920. First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated by Bruno in ink at the ffep. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), 24 pp., with illustrations by Clara Tice. Publisher's light green flower motif cloth with a gilt-lettered black leather spine label. Laid in is the catalog card of Stewart Kidd, old & rare books department, descriptive of this copy.
Covers lightly browned mostly in the margins, toning at early & late leaves, otherwise very good.
The inscription is partially in Greek. The portion in English reads as follows: "Clara's charming nudes, not my little sketch will please you. April 1, 1928, Guido Bruno."
A series of charming stories, some mildly erotic, by "The Barnum of Bohemia," enhanced by the illustrations of Clara Tice, "The Queen of Greenwich Village." Contents include: "Adultery on Washington Square" & "The Nun and the Prostitute." Both Bruno & Tice ran afoul of Anthony Comstock & his Society for the Suppression of Vice.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1538
- Title
- Eternal Moments: Stories of Life and Love. Signed copy.
- Author
- BRUNO, Guido (pseudonym of Curt Josef Kisch), with illustrations by Clara Tice
- Illustrator
- Clara Tice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [Guido Bruno]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Greenwich Village, New York, Ashcan School, Bohemian, Avant-garde, Clara Tice, Guido Bruno
- Bookseller catalogs
- Erotica; Counterculture; Social Movements, Protest, Labor; Illustrated Books;
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