Alastair The Abbe Prevost 1931 Manon Lescaut Decadent Art Deco Illustrations

Description: Hardcover. 4to. Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd / Dodd, Mead and Company. 1928. xxxv, 197 pgs. Illustrated with 10 pages of Color Plates. Number 265 of 1850 limited edition copies. Issued in a paper slipcase with a paper label present to the board. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (spine is sun darkened and faded). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt (20 October 1887 – 30 October 1969), best known by his nickname Alastair, was a German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator. Alastair The Abbe Prevost 1931 Manon Lescaut Decadent Art Deco Illustrations Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is Manon Lescaut by The Abbe Prevost Translated by D. C. Moylan Illustrated by Alastair With an Introduction by Arthur Symons Hardcover. 4to. Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd / Dodd, Mead and Company. 1928. xxxv, 197 pgs. Illustrated with 10 pages of Color Plates. Number 265 of 1850 limited edition copies. Issued in a paper slipcase with a paper label present to the board. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (spine is sun darkened and faded). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt (20 October 1887 – 30 October 1969), best known by his nickname Alastair, was a German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator. Mysterious, flamboyant, enigmatic and attractive to many people, Baron Hans Henning Voight was born of German nobility in Karlsruhe.In his youth he joined the circus and learned mime. Shortly after leaving school he studied philosophy at Marburg University where he met the writer Boris Pasternak. He was self-taught as an artist, and he was also was a proficient dancer and pianist. He is best known as an illustrator, under the nom de plume "Alastair". His career as an artist was launched in 1914, when John Lane published Forty-Three Drawings by Alastair. His drawings, which are often decadent in spirit and have the look of Art Deco, are influenced somewhat by the drawings of the English artist Aubrey Beardsley, who illustrated works by Oscar Wilde, as Alastair would later do. His ‘serpentine line’ often depicts characters whose outlines are lightly drawn with the main areas filled in with ‘broken dotted lines’. His drawings were in black and white ink, sometimes with one colour added. Alastair's illustrations show a strong influence from the Decadent movement in art and poetry that had begun decades earlier, with the "perverse and sinister" a recurring theme. Intricate decorative elements and fine detail are apparent in his works. Alastair’s fame spread in 1920 with the publication of Wilde's The Sphinx, which contained ten full-page illustrations by him, ‘printed in black and turquoise’. Many of his drawings were inspired by the poems of Wilde, and in 1922 Alastair would illustrate a book of Wilde’s play Salome. Other books containing Alastair's illustrations include: The Blind Bow-Boy (1923) by Carl Van Vechten, Fifty Drawings by Alastair (1925) Red Skeletons by Harry Crosby (1928) (published by the Black Sun Press) "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe (1928 edition, published by the Black Sun Press) Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos (1929) Manon Lescaut Translated From The French Of Abbe Prevost By D. C. Moylan With Eleven Illustrations By Alastair And An Introduction By Arthur Symons (1931) (Privately Printed For Rarity Press, New York) In The Blind Bow-Boy Alastair depicted the ‘androgynous male’. Alastair had at least one public exhibition of his works during his lifetime, at the Weyhe Gallery in New York in 1925. During the 1930s, he stopped drawing, only to resume in 1964 OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. We understand that you have more choices than ever to buy books, so we strive to provide the best service, accurate descriptions, the cheapest shipping and the best customer service in the realm of bookselling. Thank you for visiting this listing and we hope to see you again soon! 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