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BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN) [SANDFORD (CHRISTOPHER)] Heart's Desire. Inscribed by Me: Chrysilla von Dansdorf, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES ONLY, Paris, for Private Circulation Only [London, printed by the Tintern Press, and A. Alexander & Sons, 1939]
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BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)
[SANDFORD (CHRISTOPHER)] Heart's Desire. Inscribed by Me: Chrysilla von Dansdorf, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES ONLY, this copy unnumbered, title printed in purple, engraved vignette and 7 engraved plates by and after John Buckland Wright, one word pencil amendment to final leaf of text, contemporary quarter maroon calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered title on spine, t.e.g., spine rubbed and faded, small stain on upper cover [Reid A30], small 4to, Paris, for Private Circulation Only [London, printed by the Tintern Press, and A. Alexander & Sons, 1939]
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THE ONLY EDITION, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES. An erotic tale of lesbian love purporting to have been translated from a Greek manuscript, but actually written by Christopher Sandford of the Golden Cockerel Press.



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