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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-02. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-02. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Elkin Mathews. 8vo., blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board; with cobweb design to upper; pp. [ix], x, [iii], 4-99, [iii], [3-20, ads]; with a frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley; outer and lower edge untrimmed; spine a little faded; light spotting to outer edges and final paste-down; else a very good example, with newspaper clipping tipped-in to the ffep. First edition, second issue, as usual, one of 1000 copies. A handful of review copies were published with an alternative 'Black Coffee' frontispiece by Beardsley, but these were quickly recalled after a complaint from John Lane, who objected to his former partner (Mathews) using the same image as one which had been produced for him, and intended for use in the fifth installment of The Yellow Book. A third, remainder issue was later published with both illustrations featured. An unusual tale about a man declared insane by his mother, written in a style which was to pave the way for the stream-of-consciousness writing which was… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first issue with the Aubrey Beardsley frontispiece "Black Coffee." Dark blue cloth with spider web design on front cover and gilt lettering on the front board and spine. Modest foxing mostly on the endpapers, gilt rubbed (particularly on the spine) but readable, corners bumped and foxing at the pastedowns, else very good or better. A novel of dysfunctional family and psychological terror. This is the issue of this title with Beardsley's "Black Coffee" frontispiece. The book was recalled after publisher John Lane, the former partner of Elkin Matthews, objected to the use of this drawing, which was originally intended for *The Yellow Book*. Beardsley then provided a new frontispiece entitled "Portrait of the Author." Valance and Gallatin states that only six copies of the first issue were bound and distributed as review copies but were then recalled; the publisher suggested a number closer to 12 copies. In either case, rare. *MSL 94.*.