GRAY, Alasdair. The Book of Prefaces. New York and London: Bloomsbury. 2000. Thick 8vo. First American edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt by the author as is custom, with his pictorial endpapers and illustrations throughout, and in the dust jacket also by Gray. This copy signed without dedication by the author to half-title. A fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket.
An excellent compendium of prefaces, ‘fat with introductions to great books by their own authors’, from Frankenstein’s monster and Michelangelo’s David. Ideal for lavatorial reading, suggests the front flap.
GRAY, Alasdair. The Book of Prefaces. New York and London: Bloomsbury. 2000. Thick 8vo. First American edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt by the author as is custom, with his pictorial endpapers and illustrations throughout, and in the dust jacket also by Gray. This copy signed without dedication by the author to half-title. A fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket.
An excellent compendium of prefaces, ‘fat with introductions to great books by their own authors’, from Frankenstein’s monster and Michelangelo’s David. Ideal for lavatorial reading, suggests the front flap.
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