Axel. Translated into English by P. R. Finberg. With a preface by William Butler Yeats.
Published by Jarrolds,, 1925
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Paul Rassam ABA ILAB, Charlbury, United KingdomPaul Rassam ABA ILAB
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First edition of this translation. Elaborately gilt-decorated spine and upper board by T. Sturge Moore, and with his illustrations and decorations. Bookplates of R.T.Lansdale and Barry Humphries to front pastedown; spine very lightly darkened, rear board lightly dust-soiled, offsetting to free endpapers, some browning to half-title, but essentially a very nice copy in a fleece-lined, gilt-lettered, ivory pigskin-backed solander box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with some discolouration to leather edge of upper board. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's poetic drama had a considerable effect upon Yeats. 'It did not move me because I thought it a great masterpiece', he writes in his preface, 'but because it seemed part of a religious rite, the ceremony perhaps of some secret Order wherein my generation had been initiated. Even those strange sentences so much in the manner of my time - "as to living, our servants will do that for us"; "O to veil you with my hair where you will breathe the spirit of dead roses" - did not seem so important as the symbols: the forest castle, the treasure, the lamp that had burned before Solomon. Now that I have read it all again in Mr Finberg's translation and recalled that first impression, I can see how those symbols became a part of me, and for years to come dominated my imagination'. Edition limited to five hundred copies, signed by the translator.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Axel. Translated into English by P. R. Finberg. With a preface by William Butler Yeats.
- Author
- VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM, Auguste.
- Publisher
- Jarrolds,
- Publication year
- 1925
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Paul Rassam ABA ILAB
Charlbury, United Kingdom
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