Description:
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. Collector's Edition. Near Fine. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Black and white photographs illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag. Bound in red leather with raised bands to the spine, 22 kt accents, gilded pages, silk moiré endpapers, hubbed spine, and a sewn-in satin bookmark. Printed on archival paper. The gilt has some faint, small scratches to the side fore-edges, else fine. "Collector's Notes" included. 344 pages. 6¼" X 9¼" tall. Ranging from macabre fantasies to fairy tales and tales of crime, these stories from the author of The Nutcracker create a rich fictional world. Hoffmann paints a complex vision of humanity, where people struggle to establish identities in a hostile, absurd world.