Cloth a little sunned at head of spine; jacket with edge wear and toning, but still good+.
Malet (Lucas, pseud. Mary St Leger Kingsley) The Carissima.
£125
A Modern Grotesque
London, Methuen, 1907.
Fifth edition. Small 8vo. Original read cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
A rare jacketed edition of this intriguing insight into the nature of English fin-de-siecle grotesquery, and in particular the role of the then “modern woman”. The author was widely regarded as one of the leading writers of fiction in the English-speaking world at the time, but has become somewhat forgotten in the mists of time it seems.
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