AYMÉ, Marcel. The Fable and the Flesh. Trans. from the French by Eric Sutton. London: The Bodley Head. 1949. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s bright blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the fabulous dust jacket designed by James Broom-Lynne. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and mostly fine, with a little spotting to textblock edges and very faint marks to endpapers. The dust jacket haphazardly price-clipped, gently bumped, else a very sharp example.
A somewhat trademark novel by the Frenchman, mixing fantasy with Old French folkloric stories and a touch of satiric humour. Rumours abound that a Vouivre, a Lady of the Serpents, appears riverside. As the lore goes, she guards an exotic ruby and when men of greed attempt to steal it while she bathes, she devours them. But our protagonist, lurking in the bulrushes, has eyes not on the ruby but on the woman. The exquisite Broom-Lynne dust jacket perfectly captures the scene.
AYMÉ, Marcel. The Fable and the Flesh. Trans. from the French by Eric Sutton. London: The Bodley Head. 1949. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s bright blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the fabulous dust jacket designed by James Broom-Lynne. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and mostly fine, with a little spotting to textblock edges and very faint marks to endpapers. The dust jacket haphazardly price-clipped, gently bumped, else a very sharp example.
A somewhat trademark novel by the Frenchman, mixing fantasy with Old French folkloric stories and a touch of satiric humour. Rumours abound that a Vouivre, a Lady of the Serpents, appears riverside. As the lore goes, she guards an exotic ruby and when men of greed attempt to steal it while she bathes, she devours them. But our protagonist, lurking in the bulrushes, has eyes not on the ruby but on the woman. The exquisite Broom-Lynne dust jacket perfectly captures the scene.
