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First Edition. Hard cover, 12mo. in publisher's green cloth with titles blocked in gold to front and upon spine. Frontispiece plus seven further full-page black and white illustrations are by artist Remington W. Lane. Title page ruled in red and black inks, and lists the author's earlier work,"At the Threshold," which was published under the pseudonym. Laura Dearborn. CONDITION: Very Good. Spine lettering dulled. Slight lean to binding. Some marks and dust-soiling to covers.** Suggestive of the spiritualistic fervor of the times, and the burgeoning recognition of dreams as subconscious psychological phenomena, as put forth by Freud. "A Panorama of Sleep" is a collection of sixteen dream-stories... shifting glimpses of otherworldly places and times: "a veil, guarding an unseen mystery..." "Far in the distance rose a city-wall. Its color gleamed like gold." "Surely it was a city; one that had been fair and populous. For we passed by many stricken and laid low by some terrible decree. Upon several a fear had stamped an impress too terrible to look on." **AUTHOR Nina Picton (d. circa 1937) was a musician, performer and author born in New Orleans, who later lived in New York. According to "The Montgomery Advertiser" of Jun 14, 1904, Picton studied in London at the Royal Academy, then was under the tutelage of "Madame Marchesi", a famous operatic voice-coach, whose pupils included the famous Australian diva, Nellie Melba. The Montgomery Advertiser goes on to report that Picton played the part of a singing temple girl, in a lavish Egyptian-themed party in Paris. In 1903, however, she married and settled down to a life of writing books in Newark, New Jersey. She and her husband Edmund Picton, are also listed as contributors to various fiction magazines from the 1890's to the 1910's (See W. Contento and P. Stephenson-Payne, The Fiction Mags Index, p. 8392.) ARTIST Remington W. Lane also illustrated a number of book covers for Charles Scribner's Sons at this time. [See related listing 9491, written under Picton's earlier nom de plume Laura Dearborn.] Scarce title. OCLC 26788025. Not listed in L. Wright.
Ref: SPIRIT 9490
$750.00