New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960

8vo, pp. 215. Original cream boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Very light sunning to spine and rear panel, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper.

First edition.

Coates' Surrealist novel The Eater Of Darkness was first published in 1926 in Paris by Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions. This memoir by the man who went on to become the art critic for the New Yorker contains a chapter on his time there.