CARVALHO, Naomi Nunes. Harlequin’s Coat. London: Lincoln Williams. 1935. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by H. W. Perl. A very good or better copy, the cloth boards clean and gently bumped at corners and tips. The binding tight and square, the textblock with some light spots to edges, milder still at prelims, else clean. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, a few small chips at front panel lower portion, gently rubbed at joints and corners, else a sharp copy.
An unusual novel detailing the French eighteenth century philosopher Denis Diderot and his affair with Sophie Volland, one of his various muses described by Diderot as remarkably curious and highly intelligent—the surviving correspondence between the two depict his deep philosophical adoration for her. The fictionalised novel here captures Diderot’s childlike enchantment and otherworldly zeal for Volland, ending with her passing and the awkward discovery of the affair by his wife and daughter. Former stock from bibliophile George Locke, with his Ferret Fantasy references in pencil to front endpaper. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies. No copies in commerce.
CARVALHO, Naomi Nunes. Harlequin’s Coat. London: Lincoln Williams. 1935. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by H. W. Perl. A very good or better copy, the cloth boards clean and gently bumped at corners and tips. The binding tight and square, the textblock with some light spots to edges, milder still at prelims, else clean. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, a few small chips at front panel lower portion, gently rubbed at joints and corners, else a sharp copy.
An unusual novel detailing the French eighteenth century philosopher Denis Diderot and his affair with Sophie Volland, one of his various muses described by Diderot as remarkably curious and highly intelligent—the surviving correspondence between the two depict his deep philosophical adoration for her. The fictionalised novel here captures Diderot’s childlike enchantment and otherworldly zeal for Volland, ending with her passing and the awkward discovery of the affair by his wife and daughter. Former stock from bibliophile George Locke, with his Ferret Fantasy references in pencil to front endpaper. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies. No copies in commerce.
