THE VENETIAN GLASS NEPHEW. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 9-182, half title and title leaves printed in blue and black, original blue-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, yellow endpapers. First trade edition. An eighteenth-century Venetian glass blower makes a young man and animates him by magic. Virginio marries Rosalba, a charming young poetess, but marriage turns into a horror, for Virginio is in perpetual terror lest Rosalba be too rough with him and break him. Rosalba, who is as self-sacrificing as she is loving, is magically transformed into porcelain. The two lovers are now happy, both equally fragile. "Very bitter irony on the relations of the sexes, told as a rococo fairy tale." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1744. "One of the masterpieces of anti sentimental fantasy." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-384. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 1039. Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway 989. Bleiler (1978), p. 213. Reginald 15687. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 W-956. BAL 23505. Lower corner tips lightly bruised, a bright, near fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with small chips at corner tips, 9x20 mm v-chip from top right corner of rear panel, and 30x30 v-chip from crown of spine panel. (#96109).
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