James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Rivendale Press/Penn State Press, 2000, First Edition. Michael McDowell sold15 8 2020 'The Black Cat'

'The Black Cat'

Front endpaper overleaf (signed by unknown)

Boards dulled and bumped on spine and book edges

John Pelan (ed)

'Some books become talismans

James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Rivendale Press/Penn State Press, 2000, First Edition. Michael McDowell sold15 8 2020 'The Black Cat'James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Rivendale Press Penn State Press, 2000, First Edition. First Published by Penn State Press. First Published in the UK by Rivendale Press. Appendix (on Smithers and the Erotic Book Trade) by Peter Mendes. Checklist of Smithers's Publications by James G. Nelson and Peter Mendes. Hardback. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Illustrated dust