Rare Books
"Rarely Pure Memoirs Of A Young Man In Search Of Sex" 1952 STOKES, Sewell
$125
STOKES, Sewell
[255] pp.
Peter Davies
1952
8" x 5 1/2"
VG/ VG
The title of Stokes's memoir, Rarely Pure, published in 1952, was taken from the line "The truth is rarely pure and never simple" spoken by character Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest. The memoir is subtitled "The Memoirs of a Young Man in Search of Sex".