Chubb, Ralph Nicolas
Auction: 16 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
£2,400
Description
The sun spirit, a visonary phantasy. Fair Oak, near Kingsclere: for the author, 1931, 4to, one of 24 copies on Hollingworth paper, 20 lithographed illustrations, original advertising/ order form leaf, original quarter morocco gilt, vellum tips, gilt stamp of title and figure of nude boy on upper board, some slight rubbing to backstrip
Footnote
Note: Reid A9a.
This is the first of Chubb's opulently lithographed books. This work features a dialogue between Spectre, Chubb's unformed, tormented self, and Seer, Chubb's mature, mystic self. Seer comforts Spectre as Spectre recounts incidents from his childhood.