William Davey - LOST ADULTERIES & OTHER STORIES - 1stEd

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Paris/London: Carrefour Alyscamps. 1997. First Edition, stated. 8vo. 174 pp. Softcover ex-library copy with the usual markings. In Very Good condition with some light wear to the covers. Text is clean with no underlining or highlighting.

William Davey is the son of the renowned American painter Randall Davey. He was educated at Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, New York University, and the Sorbonne. He is the author of poetry collections, including Arms, Angels, Epitaphs (Santa Fe, 1938), The Trial of Pythagoras (Alyscamps Press, 1996), and Bitter Rainbow (Editions Carrefour Alyscamps, 2000), a short story collection entitled Lost Adulteries (Carrefour Alyscamps, 1997) and novels, including Dawn Breaks the Heart (New York, 1939), The Angry Dust (Beijing, 1985) and Splendor from Darkness, a three thousand page novel about the Second World War.

He has been a high-goal polo player, a combat officer with Canadian-American Special Forces, a Fellow of the International Lunar Society, the British Astronomical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He has also been a duelist, and "the husband of several beautiful women," stating that "the latter activity is the most dangerous and makes him think that there is no vice he has not committed and no virtue he has not avoided." He was Foreign Language Editor of the American literary magazine The Long Story, and his poems and stories have been published in England, India, Israel, Canada, the United States, France, the Philippines, Sweden and China.

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