Joris-Karl Huysmans — A Rebours

Paris , Les Editions de la Nouvelle France , 1942. Leather. A very scarce George Tcherkessof illustrated edition of 'A Rebours' by Joris-Karl Huysmans. One of 2,900 copies on Vosges vellum, numbered 101 to 3,000. This copy is number 1,704.The fourth work to be issued for the 'Collection de la Main d'Or&apos.Bound in quarter crushed morocco, with marbled paper covered boards.A rebours centres around Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.From French novelist and art critic Joris-Karl Huysmans. First considered part of Naturalism, he became associated with the Decadent movement with the publication of this work, inspiring works such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Bound in quarter crushed morocco, with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, rubbed to the extremities. Slight fading to the spine. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good . Ill.: G. Tcherkessof. Very Good .