Alraune

by Hanns Heinz Ewers, S. Guy Endore

$750 · Offered by Back Creek Books

New York: The John Day Company, 1929. First U.S. Edition. Illustrated by Mahlan Blaine. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. viii, 342 pages. Ewers' decadent tale of horror that blends science and the ancient mandrake myth. Born of a grotesque experiment, the enigmatic Alraune is a beautiful, soulless woman—sexually magnetic and morally

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