BARING, Maurice

Orpheus in Mayfair

London: Mills & Boon, 1909. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 306pp. + 2pp. ads to rear. Light sunning to the spine, minor bumping to spine ends and extremities; internally clean with some light soiling and spotting to prelims, very light cosmetic cracking to rear inner hinge. A very good copy.

A collection of 25 tales with some esoteric content, including an eerie preminition of murder, the reworking of a calssical Greek myth to contemporary upper crust London, and a rather splendid William Hope Hodgson-esque vision of the planet Venus being occupied by enormous caterpillars grazing on titanic mushrooms. Very much a Gentleman of Letters, from the Baring banking family, and certainly not lacking the leisure time for literary pursuits, Baring produced some very complex and satisfying fictions of the weirder sort.

Price: $300.00

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