Title page: Sheila Cousins | TO BEG | I AM ASHAMED | {publisher’s device} | THE OBELISK PRESS | 16, PLACE VENDOME | PARIS ||
Pagination: [2] – blanks (in wrapper), [4] – h.t. / blank, t.p. / publisher’s note & copyright, [1] 2-270, [4] uncut (in wrapper), total 280 pages.
Collation: 8vo; [A]8 B-Q8 R4 S8; total 140 leaves.
Binding: Publisher’s yellow wrappers, lettering to spine:| TO BEG | I AM | ASHAMED |—| SHEILA | COUSINS | {publisher’s device} | THE | OBELISK PRESS | PARIS ||; lettered front wrapper in red and black: To beg | I am ashamed |—| by | Sheila Cousins |—| The autobiography | of a London prostitute | Only authorized edition | Complete and unexpurgated | {publisher’s device} | THE OBELISK PRESS ||, publisher’s device in red to back wrapper; margins untrimmed; in an owner slipcase.
Edition: 1st edition, France, May (i.e. June) 1838; presumably the first impression.
Size: 19 x 14.5 cm.
Contributors:
Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) – author.
Ronald Matthews (British, 1903 – 1967) – author.
The Obelisk Press – publisher.
