and other sketches
Celeste and other sketches
The Blackamore Press, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. One of 50 copies printed on Japanese vellum, this copy unnumbered and unsigned. Publisher's green cloth with gilt design to upper cover, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Nash throughout. A near fine copy.
The total edition comprises 700 copies, of which 50 were signed and printed on Japanese vellum. This copy is printed on Japanese vellum.
This collection of short stories comprises of Celeste, Frau Karl Druschki, Southern Women, Sunrise in Conegliano, Sounds and Transmutation. Stephen Hudson (pseudonym for Sydney Schiff) famously finished the translation of Proust's "Time Regained" and in Celeste, Proust appears as the character Richard Kurt.
Stock ID: 43817
