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BENKARD, Ernst.
Undying Faces.
A collection of death masks with a note by Georg Kolbe. Translated from the German by Margaret M. Green.
First UK edition, first impression. Illustrations include those of the death masks of Lenin, Trotsky, Nietzsche, Hugo, Wagner, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Thackeray, Goethe, Pushkin, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Napoleon, Thomas Paine, Swift, Newton, Cromwell and others. Very scarce in the dust jacket.
Octavo. Original linen-backed burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With the photographic dust jacket. Illustrated. Ownership inscription to front pastedown but an excellent copy in the somewhat marked and slightly rubbed and faded dust jacket.
