THE BOOK OF UGLY ECSTASY. DeLuxe Edition.
London: Fulgur, 1996. Limited edition of 40 numbered copies only. Colored frontispiece, tipped; A FINE COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET AND SLIPCASE, bound in quarter cream Morocco, French papers, top edge gilt, and a terra cotta cast of a Roman intaglio talisman, germane to the Cultus, inset into a sunken panel in the rear pastedown. Includes the folder housing the paper talisman that should accompany the deLuxe edition. An important sketchbook of immensely powerful line drawings [twenty five black and white plates] from 1924 which directly communicates with the peculiar ecstatic energy which is at the heart of the cultus of which Spare was an adept. Includes a prophetic excerpt from Spare's unpublished writings, and a brief introduction by Robert Ansell. Tall quarto. Item #18115
Price: $2,500.00
