The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment

Published by Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1923

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

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One of 2,000 numbered copies, this being copy no.1,770. Octavo (25cm); black cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; red topstain; dustjacket and publisher's original black paper-covered slipcase; x,312,[2]pp, with frontispiece and 7 illustrated plates by Frank Papé. Some faint, scattered foxing to text edges; decorative label of The Sunwise Turn to lower rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.50), gently spine-sunned, with some wear, tears, and creases along the upper edge, and three tiny inked letters at upper spine; Very Good+ in like slipcase, showing some modest shelfwear, particularly around the opening. "An eighteenth-century French youth, imagining himself to be cast in the mold of a hero of chivalric romance, sets out to find his own Holy Grail, a fairytale princess; but this is the Age of Enlightenment, when the illusions of the past are to be set aside brutally, and he learns the extent of his self-delusion. Satire developing the Cervantean worldview in an uncompromisingly sarcastic manner" (Bleiler, Fantasy Literature 3-66). REGINALD 02400; SMITH C-10.…

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Title
The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment
Author
CABELL, James Branch (novel); PAPÉ, Frank C. (illustrations)
Publisher
Robert M. McBride & Company, New York
Publication year
1923
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Edition
First Edition.
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We maintain an inventory of more than 50,000 items, including out-of-print and rare books, pamphlets, graphics, and ephemera, most in our specialty areas of Radical Thought and Modern Literature but including a large selection of fine books in all fields. Only a fraction of our inventory is catalogued for on-line sales. We also issue 2 to 4 printed catalogs each year of items in our specialisation. Though we are a private-premises business, our books are priced and organized for browsing. If you would like to visit our showroom, please contact us by e-mail or telephone as far in advance of your anticipated visit as possible. We'll do our best to accommodate you!…

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Winchester, VA U.S.A. 22601