The Ashes of My Heart

Edité par Mark-Well Publishing, 1916

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Blinn, Edith. The Ashes of My Heart. New York: Mark-Well Publishing Company Inc., 1916. "Second Edition" on title page, i.e. second printing. Octavo, pp. [i-x] xi-xviii [xix-xx] 1-385 [386-388: blank]. Original dark green pictorial cloth, front panel stamped in black and red, spine panel stamped in red. Illustrated with 12 halftones by Andre Comte de Takacs on inserted plates. A pretty ragged copy with considerable wear to cloth, though binding is sound and interior clean. An uncommon vanity press title. #953. $45. Reginald 01480. Smith B-679. Buried away in this morose melodrama are fragments that might interest students of drug literature, New Woman literature, Chinatown literature, and early-20th-century debates about the influence of heredity, will-power, luck and grace in life. An impressively brutal prelude sets the premise. The just-born female offspring of a gambling-addicted father and an opium-addicted mother is given away and surreptitiously foisted on a wealthy woman who sends the girl, named Rhoda, to a convent. But what's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh. When Rhoda, 20, leaves the convent she soon begins her descent: flirtation, dancing, cigarettes, drinks, automobiles all lead up to the two passions of her parents: gambling and opium. The cards are good to her, the pipe is not. She marries Roger, a young medical student, but he does not know how to keep her both safe and stimulated. She eventually winds up moving to Chinatown where she lives in some comfort at a gambling & smoking den with two companions -- Chong, an attendant, and Foo-Gum, her drug supplier and secretary. These two are depicted with a sympathy uncommon for the period. Rhoda wastes away but, at one point, realizing she has a choice about whether to live or die, she summons all her will-power, clutches a talisman and sends forth a psychic call for help. It is heard by a young doctor who, after resisting what seems to him an embarrassingly irrational impulse, ventures into Chinatown and rescues the comatose woman. He then brings her to his sanitarium and cures her. The doctor turns out to be the husband she had abandoned. They are reunited, this time on a more secure foundation of mutual honesty and understanding.…

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Titre
The Ashes of My Heart
Auteur
Blinn, Edith
Éditeur
Mark-Well Publishing
Année de publication
1916
État de l'article
Good
Jaquette
No Jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
Illustrateur
Andre Comte de Takacs

Robert Eldridge, Bookseller

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When I began my bookselling business in 1996 I called it "Eldritch Books" because that adjective at least partly covered the type of material I offered (and because its similarity to my own surname seemed so -- eldritch). "Ghost stories" would be another handy, if somewhat reductive, term. Most of it is fiction from the 19th and early 20th century with a strong emphasis on the fantastic. Since the most familiar and relevant genre terms in use today -- "science fiction," "fantasy," "supernatural," "horror" -- were not so much in use when these books were first published, pegging them that way can be anachronistic. But that should give you the general idea. I don't have much in the way of American pulp (either in magazine or specialty press book form) but otherwise my interests range widely from high-brow to middle-brow to low-brow to amateur/eccentric. You're more likely to find rare and obscure works here than high spots. (Or at least they're obscure now, whatever their status was when first published.) In 2001 I went to work for L. W. Currey as cataloguer and general assistant. Since 2014 I've been back working on my own. I have exhibited at convention fairs (such as WFC and Readercon) in the past. I began collecting and studying antiquarian fantasy around 1980. Some of my essays have appeared in genre publications such as NYRSF, Wormwood and F&SF. I tend to carefully research my inventory and write extensive notes. (If another dealer wishes to make use of any of these notes, I'd appreciate the courtesy of putting such excerpts in quotes and giving proper attribution to me. That's what I do when I quote from any of my reference works.) I will be gradually listing my inventory on ABE over the coming years. I hope you find something of interest. …

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