The Sorrows of Satan, First Edition (10 results)

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (xix, 288 pages); 20 cm. Subjects; Man-woman relationships Great Britain 19th century ; Fiction. Marital quality ; Fiction. Women authors ; Fiction. English fiction Women authors 19th century. English fiction 19th century. Authors ; Fiction. Adultery ; Fiction. Betrayal ; Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (xix, 288 pages); 20 cm. Subjects; Man-woman relationships Great Britain 19th century ; Fiction. Marital quality ; Fiction. Women authors ; Fiction. English fiction Women authors 19th century. English fiction 19th century. Authors ; Fiction. Adultery ; Fiction. Betrayal ; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Unknown (illustrator). First Edition. HB first edition. Red cloth boards, gilt titles + decoration front. Gilt titles spine. 20 x 12.5cm. 471 pages + further pages of publisher listings. b/w frontis no further illusts. Condition: Spine cover age discoloured. Wear top and bottom of spine + corners. o/p owner name in black ink top right. Clean, little wear, binding tight, good colour. Good + condition.

A Good copy of the scarce First Edition 8vo. 287pps original red publishers cloth. A novel By the author of "Love the religion of the future" Light foxing but otherwise clean & sound. From the library of the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston.Grace Elvina Trillia, with her steel engraved heraldic bookplate to the paste down.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. White, pictorial wraps, moderate cover wear. Cover depicts painting of dramatic Victorian scene. Pages fine. Bind fine. The Sorrows of Satan relates the supreme desire of Satan to achieve salvation. This Inspired Novels edition limited to apprx. 2,000 copies of this late 19th century tale. A quarterly publication resurrecting "inspired" novels. Published by famed sci-fi author, editor and publisher of the periodical, Fate, Ray Palmer. Interestingly, Palmer also strongly supported the Shaver Mystery purporting an inhabited hollow earth. The setting is London, 1895, and the Devil is on the loose. He is searching for someone morally strong enough to resist temptation, but there seems little chance he will succeed. Britain is all but totally corrupt. The aristocracy is financially and spiritually bankrupt; church leaders no longer believe in God; Victorian idealism has been banished from literature and life; and sexual morality is being undermined by the pernicious doctrines of the "New Woman." Everything and everyone is up for sale, and it takes a special kind of moral courage to resist the Devil's seductions. One of the first modern bestsellers and was influential in establishing some of the major trends in twentieth-century bestselling fiction. Widely ignored in literary circles, The Sorrows of Satan is increasingly regarded as an influential fin de siècle text. Critics disfavoured what they termed Corelli's moralistic and prosaic style, but, it nonetheless had strong supporters in Oscar Wilde and various members of royalty. The Faustian plot follows the story of a penniless, starving author named Geoffrey Tempest. Tempest receives three letters; the second is a note from a solicitor detailing that he has inherited a fortune from a deceased relative, and, the third is an introduction from a foreign aristocrat, Lucio, who befriends and guides him in how to best use his new wealth. Tempest is blissfully unaware, despite warnings, that Lucio is the devil incarnated. Marie Corelli (1, May 1855 - 21, April 1924) was a British novelist who emerged as a literary superstar from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I when her popularity waned. Corelli's novels sold more than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, despite the fact critics derided her work as "the favorite of the common multitude." 264 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Paramount film directed by D. W. Griffith starring Adolphe Menjou and Carol Dempster. Very scarce photoplay with fantasy and supernatural aspects. One still featuring devil like characters. The final of three films made by D.W. Griffith at Paramount. A poor writer (Ricardo Cortez) living in poverty desperately wants to marry his girlfriend (Carol Dempster) but the lack of money won't allow it. One day, after cursing God, a man (Adolphe Menjou), i.e. Satan, appears out of nowhere offering the writer tons of money but there will be a price to pay. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, inch and half long but narrow chip at top spine area, some clear tape mends at verso.

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Paramount film directed by D. W. Griffith starring Adolphe Menjou and Carol Dempster. Very scarce photoplay with fantasy and supernatural aspects. One still featuring devil like characters. The final of three films made by D.W. Griffith at Paramount. A poor writer (Ricardo Cortez) living in poverty desperately wants to marry his girlfriend (Carol Dempster) but the lack of money won't allow it. One day, after cursing God, a man (Adolphe Menjou), i.e. Satan, appears out of nowhere offering the writer tons of money but there will be a price to pay. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips and short closed tears.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Assez bon. Edition originale. First edition; publisher's green cloth covers with gilt lettering to front & spine, wear at edges, spine ends and corners but the binding still tight; yellowed end papers with the bookplate of anthropologist Arthur John Newman Tremearne (1877-1915); inside very good condition, almost no usage signs; 487 pages;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. First edition first issue with September 1895 ads to rear of book. 8vo. Green illustrated cloth boards. A very good copy with normal wear to extremities. No chipping & no tearing to cloth. Internally some foxing to prelims. No inscriptions. A rare title in first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering to front & spine; pictorial front board. General signs of wear & use, esp. to spine, cloth starting to wear through on edges; slight bow to lower half of front board; front gutter partial crack & blank label to front board inner covering owner inscription; binding good. Light fixing but mainly confined to prelims & text block edges. Scarce copy of the first edition of this early Corelli. Language: eng.