London: Gollancz, 1977

8vo, pp. 157. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated green endpapers and pastedowns. A fine copy in a near fine dustjacket, sunning to the yellow on the lower half of the spine, and the very lightest loss to the front top corner.

First edition of this translation, INSCRIBED BY CARTER TO HER FRIEND EDWARD HORESH, FOUNDING MEMBER OF BATH UNIVERSITY: 'for Edward with best love from Angela'. ALS FROM CARTER TO HORESH LAID IN, PRESENTING THE BOOK.

Angela Carter stayed with her friend Edward Horesh in Bath during the spring of 1973, and later bought a place of her own in the city. Her letter to him presenting this book, written from her home in London and dated 26 August, is chatty, affectionate, and full of news. ('Am still shattered from the Portuguese experience. I think they are all deeply insane & have been for a very long time, 2 or 3 hundred years. [...] I am coming to see you in about 3 weeks' time but don't you ever come to London any more? Every now & then I raise my head from my books to ask myself this question???'. The letter is written on the reverse of a typed child's poem, written for a competition ten years previously.

An all but fine copy, and a fine association.