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[RICKETTS, Charles]. Beyond the Threshold by Jean Paul Raymond. Translated from the French. Plaistow: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1929. 4° (260 x 175mm). Half title, 5 plates by Charles Ricketts. Original decorated red morocco gilt designed by Ricketts, cardboard box (rather worn). LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To C. F. French from C. Ricketts 1929." Loosely-inserted is a card inscribed by Ricketts to Mr French, "... The Wilde portions are really like [sic] and two of the prose poems almost authentic." Ricketts wrote and illustrated the work in addition to designing its binding; for another work by ricketts as Raymond, see lot 364. Ridler 'Curwen' 27.
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