THE STUDENT AND THE BODY-SNATCHER AND OTHER TRIFLES

by Robinson K. Leather, Richard Le Gallienne

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Elkin Mathews, at the sign of The Bodley Head, in Vigo Street, W., 1890. Small octavo, pp. 1-2 1-5 6-76, original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. A collection of ironic fables and macabre tales very much in the decadent style then in vogue. In the title story a nonbeliever is carried off by the Devil, in The Monk a deal is made with the Devil, David and Jonathan,

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