FATA MORGANA

by William Kotzwinkle

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Servello, cloth-backed boards. First edition. This delightfully inventive novel that begins in late-nineteenth-century Paris features a detective named Paul Picard, whose erotic adventures are soon rivaled by supernatural ones as he becomes involved with an extremely strange case that takes him across eastern Europe. The magician he is trailing, in fact, casts

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