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... booksellers about it , and sometimes my reception was amusing ; a few of them thought that I had disguised myself as a pedant in order to gratify the literary passions of a voluptuary , and our conversation proceeded , on their side ...
... booksellers about it , and sometimes my reception was amusing ; a few of them thought that I had disguised myself as a pedant in order to gratify the literary passions of a voluptuary , and our conversation proceeded , on their side ...
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... bookseller told me that the pornographic mar- ket was a closed and special one , with its own scale of prices . This ... booksellers spoke with admiration of the books— perhaps pornography is not the right word for them - of erotic ...
... bookseller told me that the pornographic mar- ket was a closed and special one , with its own scale of prices . This ... booksellers spoke with admiration of the books— perhaps pornography is not the right word for them - of erotic ...
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... booksellers . I can promise no more . In Chapter One , The Fine Art of Reading by Lord David Cecil was published in England by Constable in 1957. The passage quoted from Sir Thomas Browne may be found in his Christian Morals , Part One ...
... booksellers . I can promise no more . In Chapter One , The Fine Art of Reading by Lord David Cecil was published in England by Constable in 1957. The passage quoted from Sir Thomas Browne may be found in his Christian Morals , Part One ...
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