Smoking Altars
New York: Claude Kendall, Inc., (1936). First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 264. Bound in gray cloth with red lettering stamped on front board and spine. Top edge dyed red. With red silk bookmark bound in. In the illustrated, price-clipped dust jacket that shows slight edge-wear, and with rear panel scrunched, but smoothed-out, at top edge. Fine / Very Good. Item #5662
First edition of a novel involving an exiled Englishman in Kenya and a "hereditary taint of of homicidal mania" (dust jacket copy). The striking dust jacket illustration depicts a young androgynous person holding a pith helmet, presented in art deco fashion. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $75.00