Studies of Death - Hardcover
W.B.Yeats called Stenbock: "Scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men." Arthur Symons saw him as "bizarre, fantastic, feverish, eccentric, extravagant, morbid and perverse." In a short life - he died at 36 in 1895 - he so impressed himself upon his contemporaries that the legends they tell of him in memoirs and anecdotes far outstrip the attention given to his writings. Studies of Death: Romantic Tales appeared in 1894, ornamented with a striking frontispiece by its author. The seven stories reveal an original imagination and a spry, urbane style quite removed from the melancholy murmurings of the Count's verse. Towards the last the Count was mentally as well as physically ill. At Withdeane Hall he terrified the domestic staff with his persecution complex and his delirium tremens. On his travels he had been escorted, and with him went a dog, a monkey and a life-size doll. He was convinced that the doll was his son and referred to it as 'le Petit comte'. Every day it had to be brought to him, and when it was not there he would ask for news of its health. He was buried at the Brighton Catholic Cemetery. Before burial the heart was extracted and sent to Estonia & placed among the Stenbock monuments in the church at Kusal. It was preserved in some fluid in a glass urn in a cupboard built into the wall of the church. At the time of his death, his uncle and heir, far away in Esbia, saw an apparition of his tear-stained face at his study window. On the day of his death Eric, drunk and furious, had tried to strike someone with a poker and toppled into a grate. -- R. B. Russell Contents Include: Hylas; Narcissus; Death of a Vocation; Viol D'Amour; Egg of the Albatross; True Story of a Vampire; Worm of Luck; The Other Side; Translations from Balzac -- Christ in Flanders; A Passion in the Desert. Limited Ed. of 300 Copies ~ UK Import
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- PublisherDutro Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 095234971X
- ISBN 13 9780952349716
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages182
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Fine (see description). Eric Stenbock Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. -----------( 1st printing of the First Durtro Press Edition ) ---hardcover, about 6.x 7.75 inches, a Fine copy, a wee bit of rubbing to the cloth but really this looks close to new, # 154 of 300 copies (actually 296 as there was an error at the printer's ), , ---contents include: Hylas; Narcissus; Death of a Vocation; Viol D'Amour; Egg of the Albatross; True Story of a Vampire; Worm of Luck; The Other Side; Translations from Balzac -- Christ in Flanders; A Passion in the Desert, rare, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 6w x 7.75 Inches. Not Signed. Seller Inventory # 168502
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Studies of Death Stories by Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. The expanded collection of macabre short stories by this eccentric author. Limited to 300 copies ? this number 158 and reprinted by the Durtro Press. Very good in illustrated boards. Seller Inventory # 001598
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Book Description Hardcover. 1st edition thus. 12mo full cream cloth with black cover design by the count taken from the original 1894 edition. #215 of a proposed 300 numbered copies, reprinting the seven stories originally issued under the same title in 1894 with three added tales from other sources of the same period. Introduced by David Michael Tibet. As new, presumably issued without dj. Seller Inventory # 34563
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Book Description Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. 2nd Edition. Second edition; #37/90 copies, following an initial print run of 300 copies. Bright, square copy. Seller Inventory # 056992
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Studies of Death by Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (Limited) Unread Copy Firm square copy. No Dust Jacket as issued. This edition is limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is number 228. Collects the seven stories published in Stenbock's only collection of short fiction, the rare STUDIES OF DEATH: ROMANTIC TALES, published in London by David Nutt in 1894, "The Other Side," a hithertofore uncollected werewolf tale praised by Montague Summers, and two translations of stories by Balzac. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX22004-1
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Book Description 1st editon thus. HC in beige cloth stamped in black. 1st Printing. Stories by Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock. Collects 10 stories, 3 more than were in the original 1894 edition, plus an introduction by David Tibet. One of 300 numbered copies. A fine copy w/o dust jacket, as issued. Seller Inventory # 39508
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