Black Venus.

£75 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A collection of short stories re-imagining legendary characters, both real and fictional. Including the stories of: Jeanne Duval, muse to Charles Baudelaire for over 20 years, Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted for the murder of her Father and Step-Mother, and Edgar Allan Poe, in ‘The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe’. A fine copy.

• Year: 1985

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