A MIRROR FOR PRINCES by de Hann, Tom - 1988

New York: Alfred A. Knopf;, 1988. 422 pp. Quarter-bound in dark brown cloth on cream boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The dustjacket features City Made of Playing Cards by Piero Fornasetti, courtesy of Franco Maria Ricci International. Said the Daily Telegraph, "Its pages jostle with tyranny, intrigue, incest and delight in the earthier human pleasures. This is a sustained meditation on power and love, an allegory of a kind so rare and so precious that I can think of only one other writer who has ever brought it off so well - Hermann Hesse." And the Irish Times, "The tyrant king, his sons, mistresses, courtiers, his castle and city set on the edge of wilderness, are all created with the luminous concentration of a book of hours. Here is a book that makes escapism a magic word.". First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Peiro Fornasetti;. 8vo. Book.