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J. K. HUYSMANS. AGAINST THE GRAIN. 1930–1937. (ML 183)

206. First printing (1930)

Pp. [1–4] 5–352. [1–11]¹⁶

[1] half title; [2] pub. note D5; [3] title; [4] First Modern Library Edition | 1930 | [short double rule]; 5–48 introduction headed HUYSMANS signed p. 48: Havelock Ellis; 49–71 PREFACE | Written Twenty Years After the Novel signed p. 71: J. K. Huysmans. | (1903.); [72] blank; [73] fly title; [74] blank; 75–352 text.

Jacket: Pictorial in moderate bluish green (164) and black on cream paper depicting a man holding jewelry in outstretched right hand with candelabrum on wall in background and tropical flowers in foreground; borders in moderate bluish green, lettering in black. Signed: J. L. (Fall 1930)

Anonymous translation (including the 1903 preface) originally published in Paris by Groves & Michaux, 1926. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published December 1930. WR 27 December 1930. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued fall 1937.

Havelock Ellis’s long essay on Huysmans, used as an introduction to the ML edition of Against the Grain, is reprinted from his second collection of biographical essays, Affirmations (London: Walter Scott, 1898). The ML had previously added the essay to its edition of Ellis’s The New Spirit (85), which was published in 1921 and discontinued two years after Against the Grain appeared in the series.

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