Hardcover 1st Edn. 8vo. Original Silver Gilt Lettered Red Cloth (fine), Dustwrapper (fine). Pp. X + 283 (no Inscriptions). Based On The Life Of Poet Lou Salome-protege Of Nietzsche, Lover Of Rilke And Muse To Freud-that Evokes The Storm And Drama Of Turn-of-the-century Europe. Weaving Together Themes Of Memory, Religious Faith And The Tensions Between Intellect And Passion, This Novel Reveals The Richness Of An Extraordinary Woman From An All But Vanished Time. 2006. spine djkt faded