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The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey, Illustrated by Sonia Woolf, 1930 First Edition

Lot 737: The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey, Illustrated by Sonia Woolf, 1930 First Edition

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The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey, Illustrated by Sonia Woolf, 1930 First Edition. This hardcover book is bound in olive-green cloth. The front cover features the gold-stamped title “THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER” beneath a stylized gold decorative panel depicting reclining and seated figures, indicative of an Art Nouveau or Arts & Crafts style. The interior reveals full-page pencil-style illustrations of multiple nude, ethereal figures across the endpapers and initial pages. The title page confirms publication by “JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.” (London) and “DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY” (New York).