The Turn of the Screw (1949)

By Henry James, introduction by Carl Van Doren
Published by The Limited Editions Club, Los Angeles, 1949

Cloth.
Mariette Lydis (illustrator).
Mariette Lydis's beautifully illustrated limited edition of Henry James's iconic ghost story, following a governess and her two young charges.
This being number 1085 of 1500 copies produced for the Limited Editions Club.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates from Austrian-Argentine painter Mariette Lydis.
Collated.
First appearing serially in 1898, James's work of gothic horror follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote country house, becomes convinced that they are haunted.
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Slipcase worn and chipped. Dent on back end board; Very slight foxing to prelims.

190mm x 290mm

R750