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Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

216/225 COPIES (from an edition of 285 copies), printed on Rives Vellum paper, title-vignette and frontispiece, 6 tail-pieces and 9 larger wood-engravings printed in a variety of colours, pp. 110, 4to, original quarter vellum and black buckram, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board, some natural discolouration to the vellum, slight lean to pine and minor rubbing at extremities, t.e.g., others untrimmed, very good. The colophon identifies this as the first edition to present a 'full English version of the original text', a translation undertaken by J.E. Pouterman and C. Bruerton. The wonderful wood-engravings are by the Russian artist and filmmaker Alexandre Alexeieff, based in Paris; in the 1930s, he made notable experiments in animated film, including with his invention of the écran d'épingles (pinscreen). In these, as in his book-illustration, which included an edition of Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher', he evinces an ability to handle dark themes. The first book of the short-lived Blackamore Press, which produced sumptuous editions of works in translation, amounting to eight title in the two years of its existence; it was founded by the wealthy Russian emigrée Flora Solomon (née Benenson) - who would later play a significant role in shaping Marks & Spencer's human resource policies and had links to Kim Philby - with her countrymen Pouterman and Mirsky as business manager and literary editor respectively.

No. 20 of 25 copies on Japan vellum from a total of 275 copies, with an additional 35 copies not for sale. 11 Full page coloured wood engravings by Alexandre Alexeieff with a further four wood engraved devices, also including an additional set of 15 prints on Japan vellum. Large 8vo. sized, 18.5 x 25.5cm, 112pp. Original publishers full dark purple vellum, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, housed in paper slipcase, additional suite of prints housed in a glassine wrapper, now perished. London, Blackamore Press. Bookplate of Ralph Smith on pastedown, corners very slightly rubbed but overall fine, some of the additional plates have suffered from wrinkling as a result of the glassine wrapper shrinking over time. .