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THE MAZE (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SALVADOR DALI); Illustrated by Salvador Dali
by Sandoz, Maurice
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good / Very Good Plus
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., Inc, 1945. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good Plus. Salvador Dali. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 111. Boldly signed by famous Surrealist artist to front free endpaper -"Salvador Dali, 1945", in thick black ink to front free endpaper. Gray cloth beveled boards with embossed maze design, in blind and with gilt title on red stamped panel to front and spine. Light fraying to extremities and sunning to spine. One or two small smudges to front board. Bottom corners lightly rubbed-through. Unmarked interior. Sunning to edges of dustjacket, with fully-intact price of $2.50 to top of front flap. Protected in mylar. Stated First Edition. Maurice Sandoz was born on April 2, 1892 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for The Maze (1953) and Spring-Heeled Jack (1950). He died in 1958 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The book tells the story of a Scots who abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. She and her aunt follow him a few weeks later and discover he has suddenly aged. Mysterious things happen in a hedge-maze adjoining the castle.
The book tells the story of a Scots who abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. She and her aunt follow him a few weeks later and discover he has suddenly aged. Mysterious things happen in a hedge-maze adjoining the castle.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86143
- Title
- THE MAZE (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SALVADOR DALI); Illustrated by Salvador Dali
- Author
- Sandoz, Maurice
- Illustrator
- Salvador Dali
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good / Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- STATED FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran, and Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Surrealism, dadaism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
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