The Queen's Mate

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FIRST TRADE EDITION. Slim 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bump to head of spine. A few fox spots to rear fep, else, clean, bright and tight. In Lotte Reiniger's silhouette dust jacket: toned and foxed, extremities chipped, nick to top edge of front panel, dark stains to rear panel. Unusual Near fine/ good+ A typical Blakeston outing, whose dust jacket blurb begins by citing off-kilter quotes from correspondence from Dylan Thomas, who fondly referred to Blakeston as a "friend of all boozy poets (and me too)" and speculated: "I think you'll be able to write a naughty book and call it slime and punishment…." Riffing off the quotes, the blurb goes on to ask: "Is this, then, a book to read while travelling under the seat?" and continues: "It is certainly a naughty and deliberate study in decadence, a story of invert relations, a day-lit dream of psychoanalytic symbols". Blakeston and Reiniger likely met through Bryher, who certainly knew Reiniger by 1931, when she took the filmmaker to a screening of POOL's film Borderline (1930) in Berlin. N° de ref. del artículo 2484

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