[Rarebooks] FS: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Fri Jun 8 12:48:51 EDT 2007
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor CHRISTABEL: KUBLA KHAN, A VISION; THE PAINS OF
SLEEP
John Murray London 1816 First Edition. Bound in recent antique calf.
Ashley I: 204; Grolier/English 70; Wise 32. With the half title but
lacking the publisher's ads found in some copies. The first appearance
of all three poems, including Coleridge's famous opium-inspired fantasy
that begins "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree."
The third poem included, however, "The Pains of Sleep," is perhaps a
more realistic depiction of the effects of opium. Occasional spotting
but a clean, bright copy nicely bound. $3000.00
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