Fanfrolico and Mandrake Presses -- Aristophanes: Lysistrata, translated by Jack Lindsay, limited edition of 725 copies signed by the translator, this number 253 of 300 copies for overseas sale, folio, Fanfrolico Press, [1926], plates and illustrations by Norman Lindsay, original half morocco, upper cover blocked in gilt (lightly soiled), t.e.g. -- McCrae (Hugh): Satyrs and Sunlight, limited edition of 550 copies, this numbered 550 and inscribed 'Robert's Copy, P.R.S[tephensen], 1928', 4to, Fanfrolico Press, 1928, plates and illustrations by Norman Lindsay, original roan (rubbed), t.e.g. -- Crowley (Aleister): Gilles de Rais, 8pp. pamphlet, 8vo., by P.R.Stephensen, 1930, original printed wrappers (soiled); and 41 others, including 27 from the Mandrake and Fanfrolico presses, several inscribed by Jack Lindsay and P.R.Stephensen to Robert Hall. (44)

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Fanfrolico and Mandrake Presses -- Aristophanes: Lysistrata, translated by Jack Lindsay, limited edition of 725 copies signed by the translator, this number 253 of 300 copies for overseas sale, folio, Fanfrolico Press, [1926], plates and illustrations by Norman Lindsay, original half morocco, upper cover blocked in gilt (lightly soiled), t.e.g. -- McCrae (Hugh): Satyrs and Sunlight, limited edition of 550 copies, this numbered 550 and inscribed 'Robert's Copy, P.R.S[tephensen], 1928', 4to, Fanfrolico Press, 1928, plates and illustrations by Norman Lindsay, original roan (rubbed), t.e.g. -- Crowley (Aleister): Gilles de Rais, 8pp. pamphlet, 8vo., by P.R.Stephensen, 1930, original printed wrappers (soiled); and 41 others, including 27 from the Mandrake and Fanfrolico presses, several inscribed by Jack Lindsay and P.R.Stephensen to Robert Hall. (44)

Lot Essay

Robert Hall (later Lord Roberthall) was at the Univerity of Queensland with 'Inky' Stephensen and remained a friend until they fell out over Stephensen's ever more extreme political and racist theories. Stephensen, a friend and publisher of both D.H.Lawrence and Aleister Crowley, started the Fanfrolico Press with Jack Lindsay and then the Mandrake Press with Edward Goldston. Always a social and political radical, he was first a Communist before becoming increasingly anti-semitic and crypto-fascist, a course which culminated in his being interned for two and a half years in Australia during World War II as a suspected traitor.

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