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1899 The Green Window
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
The first edition, second issue. In the second issue cloth binding, issued after publication had been taken over from Leonard Smithers by Grant Richards, with Richards's imprint to the back strip tail.
A collection of supernatural and decadent short stories with themes of death, lust, and the macabre.
'Will', one of his best known works, is a short seven page story about a vampire.
With the bookplate of J. W. Culme Seymour to the front pastedown.
O'Sullivan was a friend of Oscar Wilde, Leonard Smithers, and Audrey Beardsley, and was inspired by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and J.K. Huysmans.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip age toned. Light rubbing and handling marks to front board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with first gathering - including title page - working loose and weakly held to the head only. Pages bright. Light tide marks to head of fore edge of a number of leaves.
Very Good
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