S Guy Endore Translator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 207 pages, [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. Issued in a plain card slip case. Signed by Yngve Berg. Notes: Issued as number 9 of series 2. See: Limited Editions Club bibliography In slipcase, as issued "This edition . consists of fifteen hundred copies (this one no. 1171) printed on handmade linen rag paper from Van Gelder Zonen of Amsterdam, Holland, for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Royal Printing Office P.A. Norstedt & Söner at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1931. The lithograph illustrations are by Yngve Berg, and the book is designed by Akke Kumlien"--Colophon Set in Monotype Cochin; bound by P.A. Norstedt & Söner in half white canvas stamped in green and gold with lithographed paper sides. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Illustrated Dust Jacket. Mahlon Blaine Illustrated Endpapers. Red Top Stain. Book has bumping to head and tail, as well as some trace rubbing to boards. Last page remains unopened. Jacket is age toned with small chips to head and tail, wear to corners, and two small closed tears top and bottom of front turn-in. Rear panel of jacket also has 2.5 cm closed tear to bottom edge. Jacket now protected in archival mylar. Frontis Piece and 10 Full-page Illustrations intact. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], [2], 3-342 pp. In this Frankenstein-esque tale of horror that blends the myth of the mandrake with science fiction and a dash of vampire lore, Professor Jakob ten Brinken creates Alraune when he inseminates a prostitute with the seed of a hanged man. The resulting Alraune is "an incarnate thought, a witticism made flesh and blood; she is, too, the embodiment of the sinister traits which mediaeval tales attributed to the mandrake." Considered Hans Ewers's crowning achievement, the work would influence later genre fiction in both horror and science fiction. Mahlon Blaine's illustrations grace not just the pages devoted to the plates, but end papers, chapter headings, and numerous in-text illustrations as well. A more perfection illustrator could not have been chosen. First Edition is stated one of 3000 copies. Publisher's Black Cloth with Red and Gilt Stamping to Spine and Front Board. Mahlon Blaine (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. The John Day Company New York 1929 black cloth illustrated boards are rubbed. illustration to front board and lettering to spine rubbed. corners slightly bumped. illustrated endpapers. pages slightly browned. $NRP.