A Treasury of Ribaldry

Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House, 1956. First edition. Hardcover quarto in black DJ. xxviii, 675 pages; 22 cm Very mild rubbing to head and foot of spine as well as corners of boards. Mild rubbing and creasing to DJ head of spine. DJ is price clipped to front flap. Mild yellowing to DJ. DJ in archival mylar. Else pages clean and binding tight. Overall very good. . Hardcover.

edited, with critical notes and a running commentary, by Louis Untermeyer. Contents: Works by: Rufinus, Plato, Aristophanes, Horace, Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, Daniel Defoe, John Suckling, Robert Burns, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, George Gordon, Honore de Balzac, Emile Zola, Oscar Wilde, Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Parker, C. S. Forester, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Ira Wallach, and Ray Bradbury. Literature -- Collections. Wit and humor. Erotic literature.