ANGELS & INSECTS TWO NOVELLAS.
New York: Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth and boards, angel embossed on upper panel. About fine in an equally near fine dust jacket. First U.S. trade edition. "Morpho Eugenia" is a Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, an obsession with Victorian Darwinian theories of the parallels between the breeding and sexuality of insects and human society; "The Conjugal Angel" is a philosophical ghost story concerning Tennyson's IN MEMORIAM, mourning the death of a youth who was engaged to his sister Emily. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #000090
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Price: $30.00
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