Publication details: A.C. Fifield,1910,
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A superb copy of Upward's story of a German scientist, Karl Lcke, who discovers a substance called 'Necrolite', that allows contact with the dead - leading him to an Underworld where the populating 'Necromorphs' include various historical literary figures and great thinkers.In his 'Advertisement' preceding the text, Upward proposes his story as formulated to satisfy those 'who are sincerely interested in what some call spiritualism, and some call psychical research [...] I have told the story as it was told to me by my [daimon]'. The author was associated for a time with Ezra Pound, whose thought and writing he influenced; Upward was among the contributors to Pound's 'Des Imagistes' anthology (1914) - regarding his poems in this context as working within a Chinese tradition, in line with some of his earlier work.
FIRST EDITION, half-title faintly browned, one or two small pencil marks to margins, pp. 190, [2], 16 [Publisher's list], crown 8vo, original darkest blue cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in gilt, the illustration to upper board stamped in white, tail edge roughtrimmed, attractive bookplate to front pastedown, very good
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