London: Victor Gollancz, 1979. First edition. In this award-winning short story collection, Angela Carter uses the themes and characters of traditional fairy tales as a starting point for the creation of dark, twisted fantasies that centre female desire and sexuality. The Bloody Chamber continues to shock audiences today, 40 years after its publication, for its daring take on the short story format, and for uncovering what lies underneath the foundational stories of our childhood, their “latent content”, which, as Carter remarked, “is violently sexual”. A beautiful copy of a classic.

Hardcover, 157 pp. Black cloth binding and dust jacket in pristine condition, minus a barely noticeable toned section on the top edge of the cover. Near pristine .