Purple Passages

'I can't tell you how much better I feel now I am dead'; Sebastian Melmouth looks back at the life of his creator; inscribed by the author, 'If I seek out those of bad character, it is simply that they are the only people certain to have one?'

Publisher: Privately published. First Australian edition
Edition: First Edition
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.


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