Baron Corvo Frederick Rolfe Introduction (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Octavo in stiff paper cover. B&W frontispiece illustration. Very good condition. Pages: xxiii, 350 plus publisher's ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lightly soiled green boards and spine, the latter, with black 'label', leans a little. Top edge of text block grubby. Internally nine letters in corner of front paste down and top corner of front free end paper excised 3 cm x 8 cm. Clean contents with slight touch of foxing.

[Modern literature] NEW EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 299 [3]. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 15/- to front flap. Spotting throughout to margins, front/endmatter, and textblock edges. Spotting and toning to jacket and reverse. Heavy edgewear to jacket with archival repairs made to a few large closed tears. Very good. A novel with some autobiographical elements; the story follows an author struggling to get his book published whilst living in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Venice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition thus, 1974. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 137 pp., bound in publishers red cloth with white illustrated dust jacket, 2.50. Some minor overall soiling to jacket, spine slightly darkened. Text edges dusty. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition, numbered. 1st edition, 1972. Limited to 500 copies, this hand numbered 283. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 58 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with green dust jacket, L4. Minor signs of wear to jacket. Text edges dusty, text is unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Paperback. xx, 297p., preface, introduction, note on the text, very good uncorrected advance proof/ARC trade paperback in blue printed wraps. Reissue of Young 3337*. Baron Corvo's "Venice Romance" a uranian love affair between a man and his boy-girl servant Gilda/Zildo.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1976. First edition. 40pp. §One of an edition of 125 numbered copies set in Bembo, printed on Glastonbury antique laid paper. Original dark green wrappers, lettered in black. Top ege slightly foxed. A very good copy.

Hardcover. 421p., introduction, bibliography, ownership names on front endpaper., very worn and stained first US edition in green cloth boards with red cloth backstrip. Sequel to "Stories Toto Told Me". Tales of the Saints told by peasants.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st American edition. 1st American edition. A Very Good copy in Fair dust jacket. 8vo. Bound in turquoise cloth in pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket, priced at $4.00, is chipped and soiled, with a sticker on the base of the spine. End papers are toned. Text pages are age-toning. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. The dust jacket was designed by Andy Warhol.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Large 8vo. (4) + 453 + (3)pp. Publisher's plain redcloth covers, gilt label area with embossed red lettering on spine. Beige dw, red lettering, decorative red scrolling wallpaper pattern within border on front, not price clipped 12s 6d net. Original white eps. Covers : faint rubs top/bottom of spine. Dw : 1cm closed splits top edges of spine, heavy rub top of spine, slight rubs bottom of spine, 3cm line mark rear, slight browning. Contents : very clean & tight & unfoxed. Attractive copy. VG+/VG+.

HC. xvi, 299 pp New edition of this posthumously published book of the Eccentric and self appointed Baron. Light foxing on end papers and wear to cloth binding, tight and v.g. copy, no dw.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint; Later Printing. Reprint of the 1933 edition with inclusion of W. H. Auden's foreword. Very good+ copy in green cloth with gold titles, lacking the dust jacket. (299pp. ) (Previous owner's book stamp on front end-paper. Light trace of shelf-soiling to cloth. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages.

Cloth. Slipcase. Condition: Very Good Plus. Limited First Edition. No. 26 of 215 limitation. 8vo. 20 by 13.5 cm. vi, [2], 272 pp. A part of the semi-autobiographical tetralogy by the singular English literary eccentric best known for the other installment, "Hadrian the Seventh". Occasional light foxing -- mostly concentrated in the early pages, and also evident in the fore-edge.