count stenbock eric stanislaus (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1989 Tragara Press edition; limited to 110 copies (copy # 44). Minor wear to the covers and spine. Tight binding. Clean interior pages.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Here, presented for the first time in paperback format, is an unabridged edition of Count Eric Stenbock's first book of poetry, which was originally published in 1881, in a very limited number of copies, and which is now extremely scarce.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Wraps. pp 34. Facsimile reprint of Hatchards 1883 first edition with pale blue pictorial cover reproducing the original illustrated cover. Number 30 of 60 numbered copies put out by authors Geoffrey Palmer and Noel Lloyd and attractively done. Uranian poetry. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Limited Edition. Limited to 500 copies, As New, issued without dustwrapper, fine embossed purple cloth and bound-in book ribbon. Count Stenbock was a contemporary of Oscar Wilde and much more Decadent than Wilde. These supernatural stories were not published in the author's lifetime, so this rarity is truly something special for fans of weird tales and of fin de siFcle Decadence. The collection also includes three letters of Stenbock and an Introduction by David Tibet.

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. xv, 184 pp. Cloth with black & white decorations. Externally and internally clean. Numbered 125 of 300 copies. Collection of the stories of Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock, Baltic Swedish poet and writer of decadent and macabre fantastic fiction. 8vo. Facsimile.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Signed by the editor, David Tibet. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards, in the Ania Goszczynska designed dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Signed by David Tibet in blue ink on the half title. Edited and with a 30 page illustrated introduction by David Tibet, an afterword by Timothy d'Arch Smith and full bibliography compiled by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine. A collection of fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections 'Studies of Death' and 'Child of the Soul', more than thirty poems and two essays by, in the words of W. B. Yeats, the "scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men", Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (18601895). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey bevelled edge cloth boards with illustration stamped in black. Top and fore-edges untrimmed. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the extremities, the cloth dusty and with a brown mark to the upper board. The contents, with some toning to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. A collection of seven stories with an emphasis on the weird and macabre comprising 'Hylas'; 'Narcissus'; 'The Death of a Vocation'; 'Viol d'Amor'; 'The Egg of the Albatross'; 'The True Story of a Vampire'; 'The Worm of Luck'. One of only four books published during Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock's short but influential lifetime, this being his only collection of short fiction. William Butler Yeats in his anthology 'The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935', (OUP, 1936) describes the author, who died aged 36 as a result of alcoholism and opium addiction, "a scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men". (Bleiler; Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy; d'Arch Smith: Love in Earnest). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.