Bitten by the Tarantula. A Story of the South of France Gowin which chronicled the history of

which chronicled the history of the British Empire from the earliest days of the East India Company to the disruptive post-colonial years of the 1960s"

Ten full-page tipped-in colour plates behind captioned tissue-guards and 19 smaller mounted colour plates

given to  lamentations on the subject of modern decadence

Miró and Tanguy

London : Hutchinson

Bitten by the Tarantula. A Story of the South of France Gowin which chronicled the history ofLondon: Allan Wingate, 1945. First Edition, first printing, in the unclipped dust jacket (showing first issue price of 7s. 6d. to the front flap) designed by English Surrealist artist John Banting. Original red cloth. 108 pages. Spine ends of jacket rubbed; small chip at top right corner tip of front of jacket; without inscriptions or foxing offsetting. A near fine copy of MacLaren Ross's third book of prose. which takes places in 1930 in the south of