One of Cleopatra's nights: and other stories by Gautier, Théophile - circa 1945

Toronto: Fireside Publications Limited, circa 1945. Abridged edition. Illustrated colour wrappers (28 cm. tall). Well illustrated, with a dozen large black-and-white illustrations. Contents: [3]–66 numbered pages, with advertisements to versos of wrappers. Minor chipping to spine and some discolouration to rear wrapper; otherwise Very Good. Anonymously adapted for an oddly-branded series of "3.00 immortal classics for 50¢;" published by the shadowy Fireside Publications Limited of Toronto. With each of the works in the series remarkably abridged to approximately 60 pages of text and peppered with consistently sultry illustrations. "All rights reserved under international copyright laws." With advertisements for other Toronto-based pulp distributors, almost all of them located in the Arcade Building.