Bitten by the Tarantula. A Story of the South of France Gowin which chronicled the history of

which chronicled the history of the British Empire from the earliest days of the East India Company to the disruptive post-colonial years of the 1960s"

A glorious example of the bookbinders craft with extravagant gilt tooling of the manner

London : Hutchinson

Genet is in love with "theft and thieves

how he was kidnapped and cast away

Bitten by the Tarantula. A Story of the South of France Gowin which chronicled the history ofLondon: Allan Wingate, 1945. First Edition, first printing, in the unclipped dust jacket (showing first issue price of 7s. 6d. to the front flap) designed by English Surrealist artist John Banting. Original red cloth. 108 pages. Spine ends of jacket rubbed; small chip at top right corner tip of front of jacket; without inscriptions or foxing offsetting. A near fine copy of MacLaren Ross's third book of prose. which takes places in 1930 in the south of