March 2021 Catalogue

9 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 “My Father Lost Me To The Beast At Cards” 7. CARTER, Angela. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. London, 1979. Slim octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $1200. Click for more info First edition of “one of Carter’s most successful books… a retelling of traditional fairy stories” (DNB). “ The Bloody Chamber is a central collection of revisionist-fantasy versions of fairy-tales and other material” (Clute & Grant, 171). Carter “writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality… dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations” (Ian McEwan). “A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant” (Joyce Carol Oates). Book with only light staining to a few leaves, dust jacket with faint stain to edge of front panel and only slightest rubbing and soiling mainly to extremities. A near-fine copy. “The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.”