By Jean De Bosschere; Donald MacAndrew [trans.]
London   The Fortune Press
8" by 6" 5-226 [1]pp
Illustrated throughout, this is the scarce first English language translation of de Bosschere's autobiographical novel. A limited edition work.
By Jean De Bosschere; Donald MacAndrew [trans.]

1942 The House of Forsaken Hope

London   The Fortune Press
8" by 6" 5-226 [1]pp
Illustrated throughout, this is the scarce first English language translation of de Bosschere's autobiographical novel. A limited edition work.
£60.00
: 1kgs / : 975F18

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The scarce first English language translation of this work, translated from the original French by Donald MacAndrew.

No. 308 of 500 copies produced.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and twelve further monochrome plates. One plate detached and loosely inserted. Collated, complete.

An autobiographical novel in which De Bosschere's interest in the  occult, the spiritual, the obscure and the sexual is apparent.

With the bookplate of L. H. Dorrenboom, a noted book collector, loosely inserted.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip, with light shelf wear to back strip tail, and boards bright. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout, with one plate detached and loosely inserted. Pages clean and bright.

Very Good

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