{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Tony Fekete on Collecting Erotica","description":"Tony Fekete is a\u200b book collector who for years specialized in collecting erotica. \u200bH\u200be's best known for the catalogue he produced for a Christie\u2019s auction that took place in 2014 that featured highlights from his collection. \u200bM\u200bore than 200 books, manuscripts, lithographs and erotic photographs \u200bw\u200bent up for sale\u200b,\u200b including a first edition of My Secret Life (1888), an eleven-volume memoir\u200b that describes\u200b in detail the sex life\u200b of an anonymous Victorian "Gentleman," of which only twenty-five copies were printed.\u200b The auction netted Fekete more than a million pounds.    \u200bT\u200bony is a\u200b mobile bibliophile who travels frequently, primarily by train, in pursuit of books. Born in London in 1954\u200b of Hungarian\u200b descent, \u200bhe worked for\u200b Citibank in Eastern Europe \u200bd\u200buring the mid-1980s\u200b\u200b whe\u200br\u200be he cultivated both his love of books and an appreciation for the region. Today \u200bh\u200be shares these passions on Instagram and Facebook\u200b, posting photographs of his journeys\u200bthroughout Eastern Europe\u200b, that feature old bars and restaurants\u200b that he favours and, of course, highlights from his still significant (and stimulating) erotica collection. I spoke with him via Zoom.  ","author_name":"The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale","author_url":"https:\/\/thebibliofile.ca","html":"