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DEKOBR, Maurice (pseudonym of Ernest Maurice Tessier). The Love Clinic. Translated from Flammes de Velours by F.M. Atkinson.
New York: Payson & Clarke, (1929). First edition in English. Original black cloth spine with patterned paper boards, top edge stained black. Ownership inscription, corners and edges rubbed, spine a bit creased o/w very good in d/w with a 2” piece chipped out at the bottom of the spine and tears along the spine, top of spine chipped, tear along the fold of the rear panel, but still a good d/w, designed by Claudine Nankivel. Scarce in dustwrapper.
The villain of the novel, is a ‘mad' mesmerist named Dr. Schomberg. The upper flap reads ‘In a crowded Viennese night-club a girl is hypnotized and carried off by a sinister doctor to his “Love Clinic” in the forests of Bohemia. There, among his strange but lovely guests and the weird cat Ahriman, Dr. Schomberg performs his fantastic experiments upon the will; changing his patients into cruel and formidable enemies of men... The climax of this struggle against the black art provides a scene of breathless suspense.'
$350
DEKOBR, Maurice (pseudonym of Ernest Maurice Tessier). The Love Clinic. Translated from Flammes de Velours by F.M. Atkinson. New York: Payson & Clarke, (1929). First edition in English. Original black cloth spine with patterned paper boards, top edge stained black. Ownership inscription, corners and edges rubbed, spine a bit creased o/w very good in d/w with a 2” piece chipped out at the bottom of the spine and tears along the spine, top of spine chipped, tear along the fold of the rear panel, but still a good d/w, designed by Claudine Nankivel. Scarce in dustwrapper.
The villain of the novel, is a ‘mad' mesmerist named Dr. Schomberg. The upper flap reads ‘In a crowded Viennese night-club a girl is hypnotized and carried off by a sinister doctor to his “Love Clinic” in the forests of Bohemia. There, among his strange but lovely guests and the weird cat Ahriman, Dr. Schomberg performs his fantastic experiments upon the will; changing his patients into cruel and formidable enemies of men... The climax of this struggle against the black art provides a scene of breathless suspense.'
$350
