first edition Paperback
1925 · Paris
by Butts, Mary
Paris: Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press, 1925. First edition. Paperback. Fair. 304pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Brown paper spine with pale green and black printed wraps. There are large losses from the paper of the spine, there are a couple of small losses from the fore edge of the front wrap, and the front printed wrap has been adhered to the plain card wrap beneath it. The text block is split numerous times, and the majority of the pages are hanging on by a thread. A couple of the preliminary pages have tape repairs in the margins. Uncommon. An antiwar novel with supernatural themes. Mary Butts was a student of Aleister Crowley, and this is her first (truncated)