Harper & Row, New York, 1981, 1^st US ed/pr.  ISBN 0-06-014852-7.  Hard cover, 133 pages including Afterword.  Very good; touch of sunning along top edges.  Price-clipped dust jacket shows light edge, cover and corner wear, age-toning, creases on inner rear flap.  Interior clean and unmarked.  ‘… is a series of virtuoso prose pieces which shuttle between narrative and meditation to produce a rich and striking weave of the exotic, the erotic, and the horrific.  The result is a kind of contemporary gothic in which “mirrors, forsaken castles, haunted forests, forbidden sexual objects” appear in traditional or modern guises, creating an overall effect of the timelessness of human fantasy.’ (from front flap)