The Beast in the Jungle.

ALLEN PRESS, JAMES (Henry) & HUGHES-STANTON (Blair)

The Beast in the Jungle.

'A PRIVATE PRESS IS IN A POSITION TO EXPERIMENT'

One of 130 copies. 16 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton printed in black and with a secondary colour matching the text, text printed in green, purple, blue-red, green-blue, moss-green, blue and black-brown in succession by chapter, chapter titles in contrasting colours. Folio, 38x25cm, 96pp. Original publisher’s gray paper boards, upper cover titled and decorated with bands of horizontal colour to match the coloured type throughout, original gray cloth slipcase. California, The Allen Press.

California, The Allen Press, 1963.

£750.00

Very good, extremities lightly rubbed, very light soiling to boards.

‘In an anthology of great stories, Clifton Fadiman wrote: ‘For me this is the best of James’s shorter fictions, combining the utmost concentration of effect with the utmost inclusiveness of meaning’… Because this is a psychological novel, and because we had recently perused J.H. Bustanoby’s Psychology of Color, we decided to print each o the seven chapters in a color eflecting the emotional theme o that section. In a way it is a tour de force, but we thought it would be an interesting variation in book design; and a private press is in a position to experiment’ (The Allen Press Bibliography, Lewis and Dorothy Allen).

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245192

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