HUYSMANS, J.K. - Against the Grain (a Rebours)

New York, Three Sirens Press, 1931. Hardcover. Introduction by Havelock Ellis. Illustrations by Arthur Zaidenberg. Small 4to. Quarter beige suede with gilt lettering and blue linen. 339pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations. Very good. Internally tight and near fine, with just the mildest binding wear. Most attractive edition -- apparently the first illustrated English-language edition -- of this once-controversial 1884 French novel in the "decadent" school that spun off of naturalism and is characterized by sensual, excessive aestheticism -- today considered a forerunner of "gay literature" and a volume said to have influenced Oscar Wilde enormously. Woodblock engravings by Zaidenberg (1908-90) are delightfully provocative. .

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