Stanley Weintraub. First edition, first printing (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price $6.00 on inside flap. Jacket designed by Jennie Rush. In a mylar protective wrapper. Hardcover : Near Fine. New York: George Braziller, 1967. Yellow cloth with black design and lettering on cover and spine. No writing or markings in this solid book, 285 pp.
Weintraub's biography looks at the short, tragic life of a genius, Aubrey Beardsley who died at age 26. His art and writing career was brief, a mere five years. His rise to fame and notoriety was meteoric. One prominent American newspaper, though, shortly after his death in 1898, declared: "His influence was only a passing one. Already his work is well-nigh forgotten." Almost 70 years later that same newspaper carried a glowing review of his work.
