Death by Maeterlinck, Maurice; Teixeira De Mattos, Alexander (translator) - 1912

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1912. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. vi, 106 p.p.Turquoise cloth boards with gilt titling to front board and spine. Spine and head are sunned, spine ends and corners are bumped and rubbed, small damp stain to front board, a few spots of soiling to rear board. T.E.G. Roughly cut edges. Damp stain to top corner of text block, text not affected. Minimal foxing. Stub glued down to p. 8, holding B&W frontis (no missing pages or plates). It has been well said: "Death and death alone is what we must consult about life; and not some vague future or survival, in which we shall not be present. It is our own end; and everything happens in the interval between death and now...There is no reality, there is no true duration, save that between the cradle and the grave. The rest is mere bombast, show, delusion! They call me a master because of some magic in my speech and thoughts; but I am a frightened child in the presence of death!" The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life.