Item #E23198B The Technique Of A Love Affair. A Gentlewoman, Doris Langley Moore.

The Technique Of A Love Affair

London: Gerald Howe, 1930. Hardcover. Hardcover in fuschia cloth. "First cheap edition" (after two 1928 printings). Endpapers decorated with small arrow-pierced hearts. ix+207 pp. Illustrtated with small line drawimngs by Dronsfield. Very good, some offsetting to the endpapers. No jacket (the detached front flap is laid in). Presented in the form of a dialogue between a worldly woman (Cypria) and her naive, sentimental friend (Saccarissa), the ways to foster, conduct and preserve a love affair. Cypria instructs her friend in areas such as methods that women can express an interest in staring a love affair, glances, "tactics for acquiring a husband", "seven foolish practices whereby a woman may bring her love affiars to an untimely end" and so forth. Very Good. Item #E23198B

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