UNDER THE HILL, or The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser...Now Completed by John Glassco by BEARDSLEY, Aubrey [John Glassco] - 1959

New York: Grove Press, c1959. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 140p., illus.

New York: Grove Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. Dh has a tear and a very small very tear to the front upper edge. DJ is lightly smudged. .

NY: Grove. G ex-library. (1959). 2nd ptg. Left incomplete at Beardsley's death in 1898, two installments appeared in an expurgated form. It is not presented in its . entirety with all the drawings composed for it by the author-artist with a careful collation of the three texts. The manuscript ended abruptly on page 80 from where the present author took up. This romantic novel was long a preoccupation of Beardsley's. Usual library markings. .

The Olympia Press, Four Square Illustrated (New English Library), London. 1966. UK 1st edn. Paperback. Orig green wraps. pp125. VG small chips from edge of darkened spine, damage to lower11/2" of spine, foredges darkened, slightly worn at corners but generally in far better condition than one often sees these historic publications. With vignettes & full page illus. by Beardsley. A phantasmogorical piece of erotica. Ask for an image.

New York: Grove Press. Hardcover. 1959. 2nd Printing. Small 8vo 140pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Based upon the legend of Venus and Tannhauser which, in turn, is based upon the waderings of a 13th century German troubadour .

London: The Olympia Press / New English Library, 1966. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good. 8vo.125pp. No. 105. Chapters of this short novel, never completed by Beardsley, were published posthumously in expurgated form in THE SAVOY during 1896. These chapters were reprinted in 1904 by John Lane in a collection of essays and verse called UNDER THE HILL AND OTHER ESSAYS. The complete text was privately printed in 1907 by Leonard Smithers, and this in turn was published in New York in 1927. The Olympia Press first published their edition, with Glassco's attempt at completion, in a limited edition in 1959. 105.

New York, NY: Grove Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1959. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition, with just a hint of ground-in dirt to the top and bottom edges. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a former owner's ink stamped name and address on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is in crisp clean condition with just a couple of tiny nicks to the edges. "Aubrey Beardsley was born in Brighton, England, in 1872. At the age of eleven, he was an accomplished enough pianist to appear in public, and a few years later was writing and appearing in his own plays. At sixteen, he became a clerk in the office of the borough surveyor, in Clerkenham, North London, but his health broke down and providentially for his artistic development, he was forced to leave this post." (from Wikipedia) .

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-08-23. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-08-23. Paperback. Good.

Grove Press, 1959. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Beardsley, Aubrey. Slightly smaller, sturdy book, dark blue cloth, bright silver lettering on spine, 140 pages plus final illustration. DJ glossy white background lightly soiled overall, colorfully illustrated at center front in blues and marbled background. DJ has light wear to top front edge, nick with very slight wear at spine top edge, two very tiny creases along top back edge, very slight wear to top tips, DJ flaps creased inside, and lightly soiled overall. Fair DJ/Very Fine book.