Sheila Cousins (pseud. Greene Graham & Ronald Matthews) ~ To Beg I am Ashamed 1st ed with DJ
Routledge London 1938
£1,500
First Edition, First Issue in original Dust Jacket. Rare thus. An excellent copy of the book in original publisher's grey cloth, spine ends and corners very slightly bumped, original dust-jacket price-clipped with expert repairs and restorations to length of top edge, joints foot of spine and fore-edge. 8vo, 1938. Originally withdrawn by Routledge after pressure from the Home Office, this fictionalised autobiography of a prostitute was in fact written by Ronald Matthews with the assistance of Greene. Routledge. Only a handful of copies from this edition reached the market. The book was subsequently published the same year in Paris and New York, but this true first edition remains an elusive book.
EDITION: First Edition
BINDING : Hardback
BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Very Good
INVENTORY NUMBER: 107223
