Title page: {vignette} | The | MANIAC | ILLUSTRATED BY G. CHRISTOPHER HUDSON | NEW YORK BOOKS FOR THE FEW MCMXLI ||
Pagination: [1-6] 7-245 [246], full-page plates and in-text vignettes after Mahlon Blaine drawings.
Edition: Limited edition of 1050 copies, this one unnumbered. Text – a reprint of the 1909 edition by Rebman (London); 1st edition, thus.
Binding: 24 x 16 cm, black moire cloth, green label with black lettering “THE | MANIAC” to spine. Ink stamp “Charles M. Collins, Jr” to front pastedown.
Contributors:
E. Thelmar (British, fl. c. 1909) – author; a British journalist, who had been committed to an asylum in 1905; nothing else is known.
G. Christopher Hudson [Mahlon Blaine] (American, 1894 – 1969) – artist.
Books for the Few (NY) – publisher.
Ref: TAYLOR, NICK. “Mahlon Blaine, John Steinbeck, and ‘The Maniac’ (1941).” The Steinbeck Review 9, no. 1 (2012): 73–84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41582924.
Additional Information
| Collection | Illustrated books , Library |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Period | 20 AD , Mid-20th Century |
| Binding | Cloth , Hardcover |
| Material | Paper , Wove paper |
| Subject | Autobiography , Illustrated books , Mania , Memoirs , Paranoia , Psychosis |
| Edition | 1st edition, thus , Limited |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1941 |
| Acquisition year | 2021 |
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