The Stammering Librarian: Essays by Timothy D'Arch Smith
Strange Attractor Press:
London:
First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket,
192.
This hardcover edition is limited to 500 copies. “. . . Timothy d’Arch Smith steps up to the crease with The Stammering Librarian, another diverse collection of erudite essays all told with forensic detail, tenderness and an acerbic wit.
Here, among other absorbing topics, he provides further insight into the life and occult writings of Aleister Crowley, the criminal prosecution that resulted in Montague Summers’s translation of The Confessions of Madeline Bavent, an A to Z of naughty public-school slang and the feline mystery behind Thomas Hardy’s heart.” #75266
Price: $75.00