THE OLDEST PROFESSION an illustrated history of prostitution
by Hilary Evans:
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- first
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About This Item
David and Charles Newton Abbot 1979 First edition.Vg/Vg (clean intact dj lightly faded on spine and light shelf wear to upper edge, not clipped, small neat signature front and back free endpapers else contents no fault) octavo 255pp. A comprehensive social history of one of the oldest of human institutions. The illustrations, most of which come from the Mary Evans Picture Library, are of great interest - historical prints and book illustrations, street photographs and studio portraits, a Greek vase painting and the tariff of a German military brothel.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
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- 54099
- Title
- THE OLDEST PROFESSION an illustrated history of prostitution
- Author
- Hilary Evans:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- David and Charles Newton Abbot 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social history;
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