THE SWEET-SCENTED NAME AND OTHER FAIRY TALES, FABLES AND STORIES ... Edited by Stephen Graham. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1915. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xi [xii] 1-239 [240] [1]-4: ads, original green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. "One of the most decadent of the Russian symbolists, his work is haunted by images of death and sexuality. Like Poe and Baudelaire, to whom his work has been compared, Sologub was an alchemist with words, able to transmute his morbid obsessions into beautifully stylized prose and verse that is among the finest in Russian literature ... Sologub's short stories and poetry explore his Symbolist themes in a more concise form: death, often of children; perversity; and diabolism all much in evidence ..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 394. Reginald 38079. Ettlinger and Gladstone, Russian Literature, Theatre and Art: A Bibliography of Works in English, Published Between 1900-1945, p. 78. Cloth rubbed at edges, mainly corner tips, several small stains to lower margins of pages 48-49, endpapers a bit tanned, hairline craks along inner hinges, still a sound, good copy. (#136358).
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