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Confidential Chats with Boys

First edition of Alan Hollinghurst's Confidential Chats with Boys

Alan Hollinghurst
First edition. 8vo. Pp. [8]. Sewn burgundy wrappers, as issued. Hand-printed by John Fuller, and hand-stitched by the author himself.
A poem in five parts. Author's second sole appearance in print, preceded only by the 1975 Sycamore Broadsheet No. 22, Isherwood is at Santa Monica. Title co-opted from William Lee Howard's 1911 publication of the same name, a companion piece to the author's tongue-in-cheek instruction manual for pubescent girls, Confidential Chats with Girls. The physician and writer was memorably described in the Dictionary of American Biography (1928) as "A writer of books on sex subjects, and a pamphleteer... [who] was held to more esteem by the laity than by the profession". A 'chapbook' for chaps. Scarce.
edition
first edition
format
pamphlet
scarcity
scarce
publisher
Sycamore Press
published in
Oxford
publication year
1982
ISBN
not assigned
width × height
​0 × ​0 cm
genre
poetry
language
English
binding style
paper wrappers
binding state
original binding
condition
mint
GBP£ ​250
EUR€ ​299
USD$ ​330
ref.HKU 989