The Green Lacquer Pavilion. Adorned with nine Cuts and a Portrait of the Author by Edmund Dulac
London, W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd., 1926 (fifth impression)/ 1926.
Octavo, [viii], 319 pages with decorations and 10 illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
Blind-stamped and -decorated cloth with a gilt-lettered contrasting cloth spine label; leading and bottom edges uncut (and leaves unopened after page 144); front cover with a tiny light mark; extremities slightly bumped; an excellent copy of an attractive volume.
With the contemporary lilac ink ownership signature of eminent Australian biochemist Hedley Ralph Marston (1900-1965). The second novel by Helen de Vere Beauclerk (née Bellingham; 1892-1969). She lived with artist Edmund Dulac from 1924 until his death in 1953; only two of Beauclerk's seven fantasy novels were illustrated by Dulac.
Item #140034
Price (AUD):
$65.00