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The First Issue published by The Fortune Press in c1930. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. Number '213' of 2000 copies issued on antique laid paper, numbered 51-2050. There were also 50 copies on Rives mould-made paper. The address of The Fortune Press at the bottom of the title page states : '12, Buckingham Palace Road, London'. No publication dates are mentioned. Light pushing Type to enter text Type to enter text and splitting at the extreme spine tips. The gilt titling to the top edge remains bright. Other pages uncut. Two small remnants of a former owner's bookplate to the front blank end-paper. The book was published with the half-title, limitation page and title page inserted onto a stub preceding 'the introduction' as issued (see below). Very light toning to the extreme page edges, otherwise the book is internally clean. The fragile printed paper wrapper is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. Light edge wear with a little creasing in places. Mild toning to the spine, folds, flap edges with some light age related markings in places. The wrapper looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. There is some confusion over the printing history of this title by The Fortune Press : '. like its edition of 'Against the Grain', the Fortune Press edition of 'Down There' is comprised of the printed sheets of the Groves & Michaux edition, but with the addition of a new title page and justification page (on matching paper and using some of the same typefaces, so presumably printed at the same printer in France). Bibliographical evidence may be in short supply, but by looking at such facts as there are, and at the secondary evidence surrounding them, the only credible conclusion to be drawn is that the Groves & Michaux edition of 'Down There' was never actually put on sale commercially. As for the Fortune Press edition, that too is extremely rare.'. 'A clue to how many Fortune Press copies exist or were produced lies in the fact that all the copies were numbered and none of the copies that are held in libraries or that have come up for sale over the last few years have had numbers greater than 500. There is possibility therefore that Caton purchased only 500 sets of sheets, rather than the 2,050 that is the stated print run. There are, however, clear and obvious reasons for the paucity of copies of 'Down There' : it would not have made commercial sense for Caton to bind the whole edition in one go, for example. The Fortune Press edition of 'Down There' is a relatively sumptuous affair.it is most likely that, as he did with later and less expensive Fortune Press editions, Caton bound up batches of copies as and when he needed them. Another more serious factor affecting the number of surviving copies is that of legal confiscation, either by customs or in targeted raids. The Bulletin de la Société Huysmans for December 1934 (No. 11) contains a short notice about a letter received 'from an English member of the society' i.e. Montague Summers informing them that an edition of 'Down There' had been suppressed by the police. However, the Fortune Press didn't get the confiscated copies back and this must have severely reduced the number of copies in circulation.'.'The translator of 'Down There' is not named in either the Groves & Michaux edition where the title page states only that it is 'Translated by an Oxford MA' or the Fortune Press edition, which doesn t mention a translator at all. However, it is fairly certain that the translator was Alfred Allinson. .'. ' Both the Groves & Michaux and Fortune Press editions contain a preface written by Huysmans literary executor, Lucien Descaves, which was translated into English by Frank Groves. The preface didn t appear in any of the subsequent editions.'. 'Although Montague Summers contributed to the bibliography and notes included in the subsequent bowdlerised versions of Là-bas which the Fortune Press put out in 1946 and 1952, he is not mentioned as having had. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1600524168244
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