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Post by jamesdoig on May 5, 2014 3:44:51 GMT
Just looking at book auction sales and noticed a jacketed copy of The Subjugated Beast went for 3,000 quid at a Bloomsbury auction on 11 April - still holding their own! Here's the description: [Bradley (Evelyn)], “R.R. Ryan”. The Subjugated Beast, first edition, very light browning to endpapers, original cloth, near-fine, first issue dust-jacket priced at 7/6 on spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, small portion of loss to foot of upper panel, some light creasing to head and foot, but overall an excellent example of a scarce dust-jacket, 8vo, Herbert Jenkins, 1938. A legendary rarity, we have encountered no other copy of the first issue dust-jacket. Evelyn Bradley was a mysterious figure about whom little was known until relatively recently. Though ahead of their time in the horror-thriller genre, his works went largely unappreciated until the 1980s, they are now regarded as classics of thier type and The Subjugated Beast, the story of a scientist who feeds his wife raw meat to test the affect on her mental state, as amongst his most disturbing. You can see the dj here: www.dreweatts.com/cms/pages/lot/36125/17At the same auction a nice jacked copy of Vargo Statten's Creature From the Black Lagoon went for 850 quid. By comparison a lot that included a signed 1st of The Wasp Factory and a signed 1st of Walking on Glass went for 350 quid! |
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