"A collection of rare and curious amatory verse"; Crown Publishers; Book in good condition; somewhat faded lettering on spine; no dustcover.
 
Preface:
This work in its present edition completes the plan that I set for myself, to issue a rather selective, yet, a fairly comprehensive and representative collection of amatory verse in English, different in character from the usual love poetry that is printed in Anthologies.  My purpose was to select only such verse from the long line of English literature, original and in translation, that had already established itself in print, and only such poetry which possessed charm, passion and humor, avoiding the merely vulgar and obscene...