"Rarely Pure Memoirs Of A Young Man In Search Of Sex" 1952 STOKES, Sewell (SOLD) Vogue who published under the name

who published under the name Claude Houghton

and of men

is at once an hilarious satire of literary life at the turn of the century — or at any time

The curator of the exhibition was Mildred Constantine

"Rarely Pure Memoirs Of A Young Man In Search Of Sex" 1952 STOKES, Sewell (SOLD) Vogue who published under the nameSTOKES, Sewell[255] pp. Peter Davies19528" 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".