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JAMES Henry.. The Beast in The Jungle. A Psychological Novel. by Henry James. Prefactory Note by Clifton Fadiman. Engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton.. Kentfiled, CA: The Allen Press, 1963.

Price: US$747.24 + shipping

Description: First edition thus. Folio (39 x 26.5cm). Printed in different colours with Romanee type on all-rag Arches paper from France on an 1830 Acorn-Smith hand-press and published at $38.50. ' Because this is a psychological novel we had decided to print each of the seven chapters in a color reflecting the emotional theme of that section. The sixteen illustrations printed directly from the wood in two colors are remarkable for their unique style and their subtle allegorical interpretation of the emotional problems confronting the main characters. This we believe is a perceptive interpretation of a text by an artist.'- Allen Press Bibliography. pp. [94]. One of 130 copies. The 16 wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton overprinted with linocut patterns. Publisher's Italian hand-made paper boards printed in colours. Clear acetate jacket. Neat illustrated modern bookplate to front fixed endpaper. With the publisher's prospectus laid in. VG. [Allen Press Bib. 26; Horne 255; Hughes-Stanton 164]

Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom

Henry James; Clifton Fadiman (preface). The Beast in the Jungle: A Psychological Novel by Henry James. The Allen Press, Kentfield, CA, 1963.

Price: US$895.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Unpaginated [94 pp.]; folio (15 x 10 in), gray printed boards, original clear acetate jacket, edges uncut. With sixteen engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, printed in two colors. Printed on all-rag Arches paper from France. Each chapter is printed in a different color to reflect its emotional theme, e.g., "Chapter I (purple): mystery, suspense and doubt; Chapter II (blue-red): love by the heroine, and an intimation of the dangers lurking in the "jungle"; Chapter III (green-blue): frigidity, the indifference of the hero to the love of the heroine" (from the colophon) and so on. Clifton Fadiman's preface is printed in green. One of 130 copies designed, printed and bound by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. A fine and fresh copy of an uncommon Allen Press title. Allen Press Bibliography 26.

Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.