CARTER, Angela (1940-92). The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, London, 1979. 8vo, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket illustrated by Malcolm Ashman (the jacket very lightly browned at upper edge). FIRST EDITION.

CARTER, Angela (1940-92).  The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1979. 8vo (196 x 125mm). Half title. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket illustrated by Malcolm Ashman with price of £4.95 unclipped (the jacket very lightly browned at upper edge). FIRST EDITION. Clute & Grant The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 171: "The Bloody Chamber is a central collection of revisionist-fantasy versions of fairy-tales and other material, couched in an archaizing diction reminiscent of the work of Isak Dinesen ... and directed in the main to a rewriting of the traditional cloistral view of women expressed in the literature." In 2008 The Times ranked Angela Carter as tenth in their list of "The Fifty Greatest British Writers since 1945."