This lettered edition (Letter S) of The Last Thinkers collection was published under the Exposition Internationale imprint. Of Ex Occidente Press in 2012. Five Volumes in a Slipcase and elegant textured dustjackets. Lettered S by hand on a limitation page at the end of each volume. Mark Valentine's At Dusk is a homage to the vanquished and lost voices of the poets of interwar Europe, in a powerful form of his own. Pages, 17 colour photographs by Geticus Polus. Numbered As Sand or the Stars. 60 pages, 10 b/w photographs. Budapest, 1946: a devastated city in a conquered country where hyperinflation is running out of control. In a room high above the ruins a man sits reviewing his life.
From his childhood in Transylvania to his activities in Admiral Horthy's Hungary, he recalls the part he played in the secret history of some of the pivotal events of the interwar years. Who - or what - might be helping him to remember? And what are the stories that he, in turn, is told? Herein you will find some seeds, of Agrostemma Coronaria, Calla Æthiopica, Lilium Pomponium, and Campanula Carpatica. You will find some people; Hieronymus L. You will find some things; a peepshow box, a Russian doll, a suitcase, a speculum. The Last Gold of Decayed Stars. 60 pages, 3 page colour foldout. Anna Rhulen has been bequeathed a journal and a small collection of photographs, by her grandmother, relating prewar adventures, in a strange town, on the hinterland of the old Kingdom of Illyria. The journal mentions a secret, kept hidden from the old woman's family, that only Anna can uncover.
She visits the town, on the Adriatic coast, once a haven for exiles and runaways, with its mysterious river and places like The Street of Banished Time, where past, present and future, are blurred and intertwined. But she finds that memories of the old town have been deliberately buried, expunged or destroyed; reappearing only in visions or dreams that disturb and unsettle the modern inhabitants. 61 pages, 3 page colour fold-out. All volumes are hardcover, sewn, bound in black fabric and illustrated canvas covers. Illustrated end papers, full-colour frontispieces, two-colour text, black silk ribbon markers.
Each volume illustrated in colour and b/w photographs and illustrations (some fold-out illustrations) by various artists. Sturdy textured slipcase with printed front and spine.
Condition: Fine unread set in fine dustjackets and fine slipcase.