ROSE OF CORINTH. New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-89 [90-96: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], illustrations by Franz Felix, printed throughout in yellow green and black, original decorated pink cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine stamped in gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Limited to 1410 numbered copies. Novelette set in classical Greece with some discreetly veiled erotic overtones. Buck translated some of Pierre Louys' fiction, adding, as here, a layer of instant antiquarianism with the use of "Biblical" (i.e. Elizabethan) pronouns. A bright, near fine copy. (#117599).
Price: $25.00
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