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BOSSCHERE, Jean De.
The Closed Door.
With a Translation by F. S. Flint and an Introduction by May Sinclair.
Publisher: London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917
Stock code: 26931
Price: £750 Currency Conversion
First Edition. The text in both French and English is printed interfacia interspersed with some fabulous and classic Bosschere illustrations. With Bosschere's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "a T. Hulme / tres cordialement / Jean de Bosschere / 1917". The recipient was the iconoclastic T. E. Hulme - the wild man of the Bloomsbury set, cofounder of the Imagist movement, a poet and philosopher, friend of Pound, and the writer of a seminal work of English aesthetics; the posthumously published Speculations. He died at the front 28th September 1917 just weeks after this book was published.
Octavo. Original slate grey cloth, titles and rules to upper board and spine in pink. With the Bosschere designed dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. Some light spotting here and there inevitable given the paper stock, slight crease to upper board but a very nice copy indeed in the exceptionally scarce dust jacket, tanned at the spine with some fraying at the corners albeit with only the bare minimum of loss. The jacket has been stamped in purple "Net" after the price on the upper panel and has what looks like a bookseller's address faintly on the lower panel.
