The Peacock Escritoire. With At Dusk

Mark
Valentine

$100

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Valentine
Mark
The Peacock Escritoire. With At Dusk
[viii], 243 pp
8vo
[Carlton-in-Coverdale]
Tartarus Press
2023
First edition, one of 350 copies
Blue cloth stamped in gilt. As new in pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page
310844
$100

Contents: ‘The Ka of Astarakhan, ‘The Amber Cigarette, ‘The Wine of the Serpent, ‘A Revelation of Cormorants, ‘A Certain Power, ‘Sime in Samarkand, ‘Morpheus House, ‘The Antioch Imperial, ‘The Tontine of Thirteen, ‘The Second Master, ‘The Autumn Keeper, ‘So, About Hats, ‘Cedar is the Firewood of Kings, ‘The Late Post, ‘That Nothing Human Scorn, ‘The Return to Trebizond, ‘The Old Light’; and At Dusk (Ex Occidente, 2012), a series of 35 vignettes on European writers of the interwar years