Item #37437 The Sacred Giraffe: Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval. Salvador DE MADARIAGA, Ed.

The Sacred Giraffe: Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval. London: Martin Hopkinson and Co., Ltd, 1925.

First Edition. Andrew Johnson dustjacket art. Satire of modern life, under the guise of an account of African civilization in the year 6922, after Europe was destroyed by geological upheaval in the twenty-fifth century. 'We are in the year 6922, in the midst of a negro civilization, organized and controlled by women. The Whites have disappeared from the face of the earth leaving but scanty traces which erudite archaeologists unearth'. Very Good, some nicking to cloth at top spine end, in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, some splitting to spine area.

Price: $125.00

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