SALTUS, Edgar

Poppies and Mandragora

First edition. Spine lettering a little dull and corners a little rubbed, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. One of 300 copies. A posthumously published volume of poetry, with 23 additional poems by the author's widow, Marie Saltus. Saltus was one of America's chief proponents of European decadence and the credo of art-for-art's sake, famous and infamous in his day for the cynicism and eroticism of his work. This copy bears the small leather bookplate of Harry and Caresse Crosby on the front pastedown, the front fly has a small embossed "black sun," and both boards have been stamped with their gilt impressed "coat of arms."

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