CLOSE THEIR EYES TENDERLY

by Tod Robbins, Clarence Aaron Robbins

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Monaco: Editions Inter-Pub, n.d. 1940s? . Octavo, pp. 1-6 7-9 10 11-131 132: blank note: first leaf is a blank , six inserted plates with surreal illustrations by Paule de Nize, original tan wrappers printed in red and black, all edges untrimmed. First edition. A macabre jue d'espirit of two 'bright young things' who embark on a career in murder for pleasure and profit. Very flip and cynical, satirizing conventions of

• Binding: Wrappers

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