THE FOCUS OF LIFE: The Mutterings of Aãos. With the Original Conceptual Folio Now for the First Time Published. The Definitive Edition.
UK: Fulgur Limited, 2012. Limited to 600 copies only, hand-numbered. A FINE COPY, uncirculated, bound in a special custom cloth, sewn and archival with illustrated end papers, and a fine dust jacket. This work is the most biographically significant of all Spare's published works. and invites exploration through what Spare termed 'the labyrinth of the alphabet'. The recent discovery of the original "Conceptual Folio", or Prospectus, once owned by the respected writer, E.M. Forster, reveals an unseen series of extreme magico-erotic drawings, termed by Spare as 'blasphemous Ideographs', which provide an important key to understanding his 'secret ritual of Self-Love'. For the first time, readers are provided with an excellent printing of the 1921 first edition, together with, the unpublished full color facsimile of the "Conceptual Folio", which embodies such explicit drawings that publication was rejected, by the Morland Press in 1921. Critical essays from Phil Baker and Robert Ansell, who edited this exceptional work. 128 pages. Tall quarto. Item #19436
Price: $187.00
