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The Stone Door: Available Copies

Carrington, Leonora. The Stone Door. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1978]. First edition in English (first published in a French translation in 1976). Octavo, 118 pp. Original black boards, spine panel stamped in gold. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3235. $225. This, her second novel, followed the first (The Hearing Trumpet) in its adherence to aesthetic principles of surrealism that the author absorbed in the 1930s from her close relationship with the artist Max Ernest in Paris. She subsequently moved about quite a bit, exhibiting her paintings as well as publishing varied writings.

First UK edition. (6), 118 pp. Publisher's hardcover, dust-jacket. A very good copy.

First UK Edition. Black hard cloth with the slightly sunned, unclipped dust-jacket, which also has some blotches of foxing on inner flaps and on the endpapers. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A very good copy in very good plus unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in French translation as 'La Porte de Pierre' at the end of World War II. Now something of a Surrealistic classic, The Stone Door is described by its publisher as "an inspired, phantasmagoric journey into a wildly surreal world".

First printing. 8vo. 188 pp. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear to jacket, subtle spot of toning to front flap where price sticker was removed.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. A near fine copy.

First UK Edition. Black hard cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket. A few lights spots of foxing to endpapers and edge of text black. An about fine copy. Originally published in French translation as 'La Porte de Pierre' at the end of World War II. Now something of a Surrealistic classic, The Stone Door is described by its publisher as "an inspired, phantasmagoric journey into a wildly surreal world".

First UK Edition. Black hard cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket. ISBN: 0 7100 8832 9. A Fine copy. Originally published in French translation as 'La Porte de Pierre' at the end of World War II. Now something of a Surrealistic classic, The Stone Door is described by its publisher as "an inspired, phantasmagoric journey into a wildly surreal world".

Book hardcover First UK edition pp118. Condition. Fine. Page block, clean and unmarked. A single fox mark on rear endpaper. Top edge lightly dust-dulled. DJ Top edge lightly bumped, inner flaps slightly foxed. Otherwise immaculate. unclipped

First printing of the first American edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($7.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has some light fading on spine and a couple tiny rubbing marks at extremities (as pictured). Just a few foxing dots on top edge, of an otherwise beautiful copy. Translated from the French. Collections.