New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1962. Publishers black clothed hardcover with gilt title, red endpapers and red topedge. 315 pp. Clean and sound very good or near fine copy
First edition, with “First Impression” to colophon page
First-ever translation into English of the legendary book of poetry “BLOD” written by the Danish art historian and publisher R. Broby-Johansen in 1922, for which publication he was sentenced to jail for its sexual immorality: In vivid and gory details, the poems depict the red-light district of Copenhagen’s underbelly. In…