The Devil's Motor: a Fantasy de Marie Corelli - 2012-01-10

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. Book. Illus. by Arthur Severn. Good. Hardcover. First Ed. First Ed. Published circa 1910. Good condition, with minor wear to corners and moderate wear to lower edge of spine. Red binding color faded on spine. Lower right corner of one page torn off, but present, does not affect text. 6 tipped in color plates by Severn. One page with illustration detacted, but present. Printed on heavy card with pages seemingly smoke-damaged and odd smoky odor added to book. Black and gold gilt bat-wing wheel devices on front cover..

[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. [44]p. Printed on rectos only. With six tipped-in colour illustrations by Arthur Severn. Original publisher's decorated red cloth, gilt title set within elaborate border of bat-winged motor car wheels, red pictorial dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, dustwrapper lightly marked and creased, chipped at edges, spine panel dulled, numerous repairs (in paper and tape) to verso. The first edition, in the rarely seen dustwrapper, of novelist Mary Mackary's [pseud. Marie Corelli] (1855- 1924) impassioned indictment of the motor car, produced in collaboration with artist Arthur Severn, with whom she formed an unrequited romantic attachment. A unique publication, the leaves having been impregnated with a simulated smell of oil and the margins smoke darkened to emulate the pollution of automobiles. . First edition. Quarto.