Black Venus.
CARTER Angela (1985.)
£75.00 [First Edition]
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First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket. London, Chatto & Windus,
A collection of short stories re-imagining legendary characters, both real and fictional. Including the stories of: Jeanne Duval, muse to Charles Baudelaire for over 20 years, Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted for the murder of her Father and Step-Mother, and Edgar Allan Poe, in 'The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe'.
An excellent copy, as new.
Stock Code: 248259
