Rolfe Fr Frederick (28 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Wraps have only light wear, spine is unbent and sunned. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Some shelf and edge wear, original cover price scratched out on rear cover, Christmas gift message dated 1978 to front endpaper, paper edge toned with light foxing. ; First printing of Picador paperback edition, 1978. Nice tight copy. Cover artwork by Gerald Humberstone Garley. ; 320 pages; A set of curious circumstances, brought about by Vatican politics, propels George Arthur Rose from despised obscurity in a London slum to the throne of St Peter. In a matter of weeks, the entire world is turned upside-down as the new Pope embarks upon a programme of ecclesiastical and geopolitical reform.…

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Soft cover book, Penguin Modern Classics 2031, covers and text are both near fine; very light, uniform tanning to the 360 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Phoenix Library Edition. light soiling to the cover but otherwise a tight, strong copy with no writing, book plate, or names, practically a fine copy. Chatto and Windus (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Binding solid. Pages unmarked and only slightly aged. Brown cloth cover has little or no wear. Dustjacket, now in plastic, has only minor wear to edges, and otherwise okay.

Condition: New. pp. xv + 401.

Condition: New. pp. xv + 401.

paperback. Condition: Poor. Prima edizione. Brossura, 12,5x19 cm, 395 pg. Copertina brunita e con tracce d'uso, dorso con lacuna, pagine brunite ai margini.

Paperback. Condition: Good. This trade paperback edition of "Hadrian the Seventh" is in good condition. The cover shows minor wear consistent with age, and the binding remains intact. There are no inscriptions or library markings. The pages are slightly yellowed, typical of vintage paperbacks, but are free of significant marks or tears. no dust jacket (trade paperback).…

Condition: Very Good. 1950. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Reprint. The Landmark library, no. 10 (first thus). Light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. Bump wear to board corners. DJ has edge/rub wear, tears, shallow chipping, light soiling and creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 14 x 20.3 x 2.4cm, wt500g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Condition: Very Good. 1950. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . .

New Edition. 1959 new edition, tightly bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. VG dust jacket not price-clipped and protected by removable clear sleeve. Page fore-edges yellowed with a little foxing; large damp stain to bottom fore-edge and lower corner which affects bottom edge of front cover externally and internally. Internally, bottoms of initial pages slightly crinkled by damp stain; otherwise, a good, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in dust jacket Used - Good. Good hardback in dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First thus. A Kataleptic Phantasmatic Romance. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt title and attributions to spine. Front upper corner lightly bumped. Hint of bump to rear upper corner. (xi)257pp. Trimmed flap jacket has short closed tear to front upper edge with mild wrinkles and few other signs of prior handling.…

466(2) S. OLn. u. ill. OU. (Francis Bacon). Erste Ausgabe. Sehr gutes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. Slight bumping to corners. Old owner's name to front nedpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in dust jacket showing some moderate chipping (now in removable archival mylar sleeve). Very neat. viii,413pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pocket chatto edition on red cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket. none. 413p., spine is discolored., p.337-343 set-off and torn.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1963 Penguin Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding with wonderful Penguin cover design as shown.

Condition: Poor. No dustjacket. Lean to spine. Tanning/foxing/fading to cover. Tanning/foxing & some marks to textblock edges. Bottom page edges rough cut. Owner bookplate at front. Inscription & stain on ffep. Pencil underlining/marks. Text clear to read.

Condition: Poor. Poor dust jacket, with tears, wear, nicks, marks, scratches, fading/tanning. Hard board has bumps, wear, marks, scratches and fading. Tanning/foxing to text blocks and a few page edges. Text good and legible.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st UK Edition. With an introduction by Cecil Woolf. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ with some dusting to wrappers. Tony and Emmy Award winning actor Edward Herrmann's copy with his signature and purchasing information on rear fly leaf.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth Book and Dust Jacket in very good Condition. Red cloth covers with gold lettering to spine. Slight toning on text block upper edge. Strikingly illustrated dust jacket, which includes the image of a crab. Images upon request. Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Fine. 1st Edition. A romance in the best sense. The red cloth cover is VG to NF as is the dust wrapper, save for very slight signs of wear to top edge; price clipped. slight dust toning to text block edges but overall great condition. Gift dedication to top right corner of front fly leaf. Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Small octavo in red cloth, gilt titles, deckle textblock; 257 pp; 20 cm. Simple personal bookplate of one Henry Eager Mason of Highland Park, [Illinois] to front paste-down. A peculiarly revealing work by Frederick Rolfe?Baron Corvo?one in which his Italianate fantasies, Catholic symbolism, and obsessive self-mythologizing dissolve into something dreamlike, brittle, and intensely personal. The novel resists ordinary narrative coherence, drifting instead through reverie and projection, with ?kataleptic? functioning less as diagnosis than as metaphor for suspended will and arrested desire; its titular figure is not so much a character as a phantasm through which Rolfe stages aristocratic longing, aesthetic absolutism, and spiritual desolation. Homoeroticism permeates the book, though rarely in direct statement: male beauty, devotion, hierarchy, and ritualized intimacy carry an unmistakable queer charge, displaced into atmosphere rather than plot, and sharpened by Rolfe?s rejection of bourgeois heterosexual norms. Muted on publication and long overshadowed by Hadrian the Seventh, the novel now reads as a compelling late document of imaginative extremity and inward collapse, while its sole lifetime edition. | Fin-de-si?cle decadence, Corvoiana, Early queer literatur; Gay authors, 19th Century. Fiction, History, Italie Histoire 1492-1559 Romans, nouvelles, etc, Italy, Italy History 1492-1559 Fiction. About good(+) with modest sunning to spine, shelf wear to top and tail; book plate to paste-down endpaper; pages clean; volume is protected in mylar. A respectable, readable, covetable copy. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition, first imp. 8vo. Publisher's dark purple cloth, with the decorated design by Rolfe in white to cover. Gilt titles to spine. To rear, bound in on a different paper stock and dated September 1903, 32 pages of publisher's advertisements, now slightly toned. Top edges gilt. With the author's designed device to title page. Rolphe's masterpiece and still in print, features George Rose, its protagonist, in a not so thinly veiled self-portrait of the author, who lives out a wish fulfilment fantasy of being elected Pope. A previous owner has written across the front free endpapers in a small, neat contemporary hand a key to the main characters in the novel. To verso of the ffep the wonderful curse bookplate of C. J. Peacock, clearly not the writer of the notes, which offers the invocation, "who folds a leafe downe ye divel toaste browne / who makes marke or blotte ye divel roaste hot / who stealeth thisse boke ye divel shall cooke". His bookplate is found in a number of collections and on copies for sale. The gilt to the spine is bright, the boards are clean, with minor rubs to lower tips and spine ends and less so, upper tips. The prelims have some very faint mottling, the page edges are clean and free of spotting and marks. Overall a very well kept copy, bright, firm and square. One of 1500 copies, of which the first 700 copies featured the white design on the "dull purple cloth", the next 450 copies having the design stamped in blind. Woolf, A 6a.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition, first issue, of the best known work of Frederick Rolfe, a rumination on the Catholic Church. The first edition, first issue, with the original cloth restored to the endpapers, the original front board with white decoration. Thirty-two pages of adverts to the rear, dated September 1903.'Hadrian the Seventh' follows a failed candidate for the priesthood, who was denied by the Roman Catholic church. The novel sees him living alone with his little yellow cat, whereupon he is visited by two prominent churchmen, one a Cardinal Archbishop, proposing to right the wrongs done to him.By Frederick Rolfe. This was his best known work. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards, with the original cloth bound in. Externally, smart. Spine is faded. A small amount of wear to the tail of the spine and joints, with a small amount of loss to the tail of the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…