The Green Moustache: a fantasy of Modernism

Dawson, Warrington [aka Francis Warrington Dawson II]

Chicago: The Bernard Pub. Co., 1925. Hardcover. 315p., first edition hardcover bound in wine cloth boards and darkened gilt titles. Shelfwear, cup ring on front cover. Soiling to some pages.

Dawson was the son of the South Carolina newspaper editor born Austin John Reeks in Britain who joined the Confederacy and was murdered by his neighbor in a notorious incident in 1889. His son who wrote under the name Warrington Dawson was a flamboyant exile in France and correspondent with Joseph Conrad who promoted this book (under the original title of "Grand Elixir") which is a fantasy and parody about mystical perfumes.

Cat.No: 327686

Price: $45.00