A Chronicle Of A Voyage Wainhouse, Austryn

First edition, limited issue. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Wainhouse by Pierre Klossowski. Octavo. 89pp. Tape-backed card covers with integral printed dust jacket. Card covers tanned, dust jacket toned at the spine and edges, and the front cover with ringmarks and a tiny chip, very good. The text is fine. copy E of 20 lettered author's copies (A-T), of 250 copies total. Taped in facing the half-title is the calling card of the author's father, lawyer and minister to Austria David W. Wainhouse; Wainhouse has canceled the printed information and Inscribed the card to "Dear Niles," sending the book along. The elder Wainhouse would later become Deputy Assistant Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration. Austryn Wainhouse is best known as a translator of de Sade into English, and the author of *Hedyphagetica*. With a foxed publisher's advertisement for the book laid in. Nine copies in *OCLC*.