[Rarebooks] FS: Alfred Chester's First Book: HERE BE DRAGONS, price reduced, along with the limited edition INSCRIBED to Mary Lee Settle

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $125    Now  $50:

CHESTER, Alfred. HERE BE DRAGONS. Paris: Editions Finisterre, 1955. 
First Edition. Printed wrappers in plain glassine dustwrapper. One of 
1000 copies (of a total edition of 1125 copies) of the author's first 
book, a collection of stories. About Fine in very slightly worn original 
glassine.

/From the beginning of of Gore Vidal's foreword to Alfred Chester's 
collected stories (HEAD OF A SAD ANGEL):"Although it has been my 
misfortune to have at practically all the noted American writers of the 
last half century, I did have the great good luck never to have so much 
as glimpsed Alfred Chester. He was, by every account, a genuine monster 
whose life comprises one of those Cautionary Tales that tend to 
over-excite journalists and school-teachers. Drink and drugs, paranoia 
and sinister pieces of trade did him in early, and the chronicle of his 
descent is as fascinating to read about in these pages as it must have 
been pretty grim to live." /      $50.00

Also available is the scarce limited edition of this book INSCRIBED to 
writer Mary Lee Settle:

CHESTER, Alfred. HERE BE DRAGONS. Paris: Editions Finisterre, 1955. 
First Edition. Printed wrappers in plain glassine dustwrapper. Copy #5 
of 100 numbered copies (of a total edition of 1125 copies) of author's 
first book. This copy SIGNED on the title page by the author and 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Alfred" on the half title to novelist Mary Lee 
Settle and her husband "with lots + lots of love 'n kisses." Slight 
darkening to spine. About Fine in original glassine.    $750.00

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