The Eve of Saint Venus.

£45 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Originally conceived as a play in three acts in 1952, it was rewritten as a novella after the author initially failed to find a theatre willing to stage the play. First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations by Edward Pagram, unmarked internally; publisher's sea-green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket; near-fine.

• Binding: Hardcover

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