[Rarebooks] FS: HERE BE DRAGONS: Alfred Chester's First Book, #5 of 100, INSCRIBED to Mary Lee Settle, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $500 NET

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 Chester's 
first book. This copy SIGNED on the title page by the author and 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Alfred" on the half-title page to novelist Mary 
Lee Settle and her husband "with lots + lots of love 'n kisses." Slight 
darkening to the spine, top front, and corners. About Fine in 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." (#011422)     $750.00

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