Lot 132
Butts (Mary) Armed With Madness, one of 100 copies, 1928.
Hammer Price: £850
Description
Butts (Mary) Armed With Madness, one of 100 copies, frontispiece and 2 plates by Jean Cocteau, endpapers very lightly toned, original buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, very slightly rubbed at extremities, spine faded, 4to, 1928.
⁂ Butts's second novel, "a modernist treatment of the grail myth" (ODNB), and one of the most original authors of the inter-war years.
This copy one of the rare deluxe issues from a limitation of 100, with illustrations by Cocteau not present in the trade issue.
Description
Butts (Mary) Armed With Madness, one of 100 copies, frontispiece and 2 plates by Jean Cocteau, endpapers very lightly toned, original buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, very slightly rubbed at extremities, spine faded, 4to, 1928.
⁂ Butts's second novel, "a modernist treatment of the grail myth" (ODNB), and one of the most original authors of the inter-war years.
This copy one of the rare deluxe issues from a limitation of 100, with illustrations by Cocteau not present in the trade issue.
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