Hardcover. Condition - good. No Dust Jacket. Cover - cyan with gilt, bumping to corners and spine ends, bleaching on front, fading to spine. Page Edges - library stamps and red mark. Inside Pages - library stamps and pencil marks in front, otherwise as new. Published 1992. The short stories of Mary Butts possess an intriguing relation to the present moment. "Lost" for sixty years, they reappear now with freshness and panache, capturing that mixture of hopeful anxiety which describes the contemporary vogue, including our various fascinations with "realities" usually beyond physical experience. The power of hidden things and the things of hidden power preoccupy these sixteen distinctive tales of unusual love and betrayal, magic and mummery, belief and folly. Here, in the realm of active imagination, the veil between natural and supernatural may be rent apart in an instant, and just as quickly restored. As John Ashbery remarks in the preface, "After reading Butts one is left with an impr