The Beast in the Jungle.

£750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Very good, extremities lightly rubbed, very light soiling to boards. ‘In an anthology of great stories, Clifton Fadiman wrote: ‘For me this is the best of James’s shorter fictions, combining the utmost concentration of effect with the utmost inclusiveness of meaning’… Because this is a psychological novel, and because we had recently perused J.H. Bustanoby’s Psychology of Color, we decided to print each o the seven chapters in a color eflecting the emotional theme o that section. In a way it is a tour de force , but we thought it would be an interesting variation in book design; and a private press is in a position to experiment’ (The Allen Press Bibliography, Lewis and Dorothy Allen).

• Year: 1963

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