SIX MORAL TALES ... Edited & Translated by Frances Newman. New York: Horace Liveright, [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-292, original buckram-backed purple boards, spine panel stamped in black, top edge stained gray, other edges untrimmed, gray endpapers. First edition in English. Translation of MORALITIES LEGENDAIRES (1887), six elaborately written, satirical versions, or embroideries upon, old tales, e.g. "Salome," dialogues that parody Flaubert's HERODIAS; another takes up the story of Hamlet; another deals with Pan. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-101. Bleiler (1978), p. 117. Reginald 08528. Light shelf wear to purple boards that are also partially faded, a very good copy. (#117550).
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