{"product_id":"stacpoole-henry-de-vere-pierrot-a-story","title":"STACPOOLE, H[enry] De Vere. Pierrot! A Story.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eBy the Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Lagoon\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTACPOOLE, H[enry] De Vere.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pierrot! A Story. \u003ci\u003eLondon: John Lane, The Bodley Head and Philadelphia: Henry Altemus\u003c\/i\u003e. 1896.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Original buff cloth, printed in red to a design by Aubrey Beardsley, green patterned endpapers designed by Beardsley; pp. viii, 163, [1 (blank)], 16 (advertisements); title-page designed by Beardsley; spine a little sunned; slight staining to head of p. 8, offsetting (from now-removed bookmark?) to pp. 74–75; else a very good copy; blind-embossed stamp of W.H. Smith Library to front free endpaper and title-page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of the first volume of four-part Pierrot series by Stacpoole, best known for his much-filmed 1908 work \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Lagoon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003ePierrot\u003c\/i\u003e books follow the story of a young French boy and his psychic double, a German officer, during the Franco-Prussian war. The author was a friend of Beardsley and other \u003ci\u003eYellow Book\u003c\/i\u003e writers, and his use of symbolism and the occult sat well with their aesthetic approach. Beardsley, writing to John Lane in July 1895, was expecting to be paid £15 for the commission ‘as the Pierrot commission will mean a good deal of work’ (Letters, p. 94).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGertner Zatlin 958–62; Samuels Lasner 99; see Vallance 141 for the Pierrot Library.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124694\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64326555042169,"sku":"2124694","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124694.jpg?v=1787325504","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/stacpoole-henry-de-vere-pierrot-a-story","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}