CARTER (Angela).

Black Venus.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket. London, Chatto & Windus, 1985.

£60.00

A collection of short stories re-imagining legendary characters, both real and fictional. Including the stories of: Jeanne Duval, muse to Charles Baudelaire for over 20 years, Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted for the murder of her Father and Step-Mother, and Edgar Allan Poe, in ‘The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe’.

An excellent copy, as new.

Stock No.
245548