472 pp. Frontispiece portrait with author's facsimile autograph, tissue-guard. 7¼x5, bound in full levant dark blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; with erotic fore-edge painting show two men and two women making love.

Such explicitly erotic fore-edge paintings are seldom seen. Front pastedown with binder's gilt-lettering "Oxford Binding." 1909 Russian paper currency bill at increment of "5," laid in.