Bitten by the Tarantula. A Story of the South of France central and Arshile Gorky

and Arshile Gorky

Contents somewhat shaken

Spine lettered in gilt with further gilt design

Wordsworth and the Lake District and Shelleywith Eton and Great Marlow

Original grey hardback with the dust-jacket

Bitten by the Tarantula. A Story of the South of France central and Arshile GorkyLondon: Allan Wingate, 1945. First Edition, first printing, in the unclipped dust jacket (showing first issue price of 7s. 6d. to the front flap) designed by English Surrealist artist John Banting. Original red cloth. 108 pages. Spine ends of jacket rubbed; small chip at top right corner tip of front of jacket; without inscriptions or foxing offsetting. A near fine copy of MacLaren Ross's third book of prose. which takes places in 1930 in the south of