1920, 1st Ed, THE CITY CURIOUS, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE, ILLUSTRATED w COLOR PLATES
$ 126.72
Description
The City Curious by Jean de Bosschere Illustrated by the Author and Retold in English by F. Tennyson Jesse New York: Dodd, Mead and Company 1920 First Edition Small quarto, xii, 179 pages, publisher's original yellow cloth covered boards with pictorial decoration. Pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout in black-and-white and with color plates. Now in a protective clear mylar jacket. Very minimal rubbing, else in very good + condition. The City Curious by Jean de Bosschere is a richly imaginative and symbolist work that blends prose, visual art, and philosophical reverie into a singular, dreamlike meditation on urban life. Rather than offering a conventional narrative, the book presents the city as a living, sentient presence—at once seductive, grotesque, and spiritually charged—filtered through de Bosschere’s distinctive blend of mysticism, eroticism, and psychological insight. Closely aligned with early 20th-century Symbolist and Decadent aesthetics, the work reflects the author’s fascination with the inner life, moral ambiguity, and the occult dimensions of modern existence. Today, The City Curious is valued as much for its intellectual and artistic ambition as for its place within the broader modernist and symbolist tradition, appealing especially to collectors of illustrated books and avant-garde literature. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and don't forget to check out my other listings.
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