Chalk Face
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 252pp. Octavo 19.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with green ink stamped designs on the spine and front cover. Spine slants forward a bit. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. No dust jacket. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler (1948), p. 119. In Hubin. Very Good. Item #71559
Ruyle writes in pencil on the front free endpaper: "Weird occult novel of a man's will becoming incarnate (by arcane studies), independent of his mind, commiting [sic] murders and (?) self-destruction. Some spiritualism, astrology, clairvoyance. 'Mental aberration' code Bleiler."
Price: $300.00