EVENING AT THE LARCHES

by Harry Hearson, J. C. Trewin

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Paul Elek, 1951 . Octavo, 16 full-page illustrations by Ronald Searle, cloth. First edition. Parody of Gothic drama. A house party at The Larches; Count Dracula is one of the attendees. The illustrations are wonderful and possibly influenced the work of Edward Gorey. Not in Day 1963 or Reginald 1979; 1992 . Cloth mottled but a very good copy in good or better pictorial dust

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