Jun 16, 2022 - Sale 2609

Sale 2609 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BEASLEY, GERTRUDE. My First Thirty Years. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 maroon morocco, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, light soiling; original printed wrappers bound in, several ownership stamps, mostly to front and end matter. First edition. Uncommon. Remarkable proto-feminist memoir. Published by Robert McAlmon in Paris; many of these were confiscated by U.S. authorities because of its explicit content. In 1989 The Book Club of Texas published a new edition. (Paris: Contact Editions, 1925)