The Charles Carrington Collection: Anon: A Town-Bull, or, The Elysian Fields… Carnopolis: Société des Bibliophiles,for the Delectation of the Amorous and the Instruction of the Amateur in the Year of the Excitement of the Sexes. n.p n.d (?Paris: Charles Carrington,c1899.)

/ Steve M.

Not  happy with this, images need replacing with accurate exposure.

FIRST DRAFT

An extremely rare clandestine Carrington, on which bibliographers have differing opinions, to some degree, it appears the an earlier clandestine edition with the same title was publishedby Brancart in 1893.A plain copy text only.
This Book despite its gray exterior is packed with glorious head and tail pieces and banners. An absolute swine to scan in, and appears darker on the post than it is in reality, due to my ongoing difficulties with imaging. I hope you like it anyway. Reading the text in some of the images will quickly give you a sense of just how explicit the book was and is.

 

A Town-Bull, or, the Elysian Fields. How Priapus blessed a poor man, made a living for him, and how, finally, a paradise for free-lovers was established where fathers and daughters, mothers and grandsons, brothers and sisters, white, brown and black cohabitated indiscriminately. Carnopolis [Paris]: Société des Bibliophiles, c.1899.

8vo. 125pp. Limited edition of 300 copies printed on smooth wove paper In original anonymous plain grey wrappers. In very good condition, slight age toning to gray wraps.

 

 

See Also

Charles Carrington Collection: Clandestine Title; Anon, Memoirs of a Russian Ballet Girl by the author of Callipyges Monte Carlo (Paris) for Private Circulation Only, 1901.

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