Marrin's Bookshop

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8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. xii + 300 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, over blue boards, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has slight wear at head and tail of spine; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 24 pages of black and white plates. A cultural history of prostitution, by Lujo Bassermann, the pseudonym of Hermann Otto Ludwig Schreiber (1920-2014). It was first published in Vienna in 1965 as Das Alteste Gewerbe: Eine Kulturgeschicht.