Corvo, Fr Rolfe, Baron (118 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of the softcover edition. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine. A sharp copy.

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.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Printing. 401pp. Introduction by Alexander Theroux. Front corner crease. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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

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.

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).…

hardcover. Condition: fine. First. Introd. by Cecil Woolf. 8vo, scarlet cloth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. First Edition. Fine copy, lacking dust wrapper.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With frontispiece, decorated title & plates. Plastic dustjacket. Slight wear to spine, covers, corners & dustjacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Paper covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint of paperback edition. Fictionalised account of an English Pope. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Limited edition, #13 of 200 copies, printed on Basington Parchment. Clear plastic DJ. In VG slipcase, which has some spotting. ; 80 pages.

Condition: Near Fine/no dj. 246pp. 1st American edition.

BOOK IS VERY GOOD+ WITHOUT D.J. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CECIL WOOLF RED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES. BOOK HAS A FEW TINY SCATTERED ABRASIONS BUT IS OTHERWISE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER. …

Hard Cover. First edition. Very good except for a few black marks on red cloth cover. No jacket. Former owner name and address stamped on front end paper. 246pp. "A Romance." (loc 1039).

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

N. PAG. 395 - BROSSURA ILL. - BRUNITURE ALLE PRIME E ALLE ULTIME PAGINE, MODESTI SEGNI DI USURA.

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth with titles in gilt, octavo. 245 pages. Prologue by Cecil Woolf. Binding strong, cover bright. Just a bit of light age toning. Book is in a complete dust jacket with original price on inside flap. Jacket shows no wear but some light spotting to front edge. Ships in box.…

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condition: Very Good+. No dustwrapper. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: 413pp. No ownership marks.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. cloth hard cover.8Vo.245 pages.near fine copy in dear fine Dust Jacket.scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. H/B copy in Very Good Condition. The book is clean & Tightly bound throughout. D/J is in Good Condition with some minor scuffing along the top edge of the jacke, No Tears Evident. No Inscriptions Free Postage within the UK.

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. 1969. Chatto & Windus, The Landmark Library No. 10. A Hardback in Very Good + condition in a Dust Wrapper also in Very Good + condition. Rather Uncommon in this format. Publisher's original brown boards with lettering to spine and design in gilt. Very slight wear at spine ends. Very slight lean to spine, but spine firm and page block is tight and sound. Foxing to top of page block and very very slight age-toning to page block as a whole. Narrow one inch crease to top edge of several pages, but type of creasing suggests may have occurred during original manufacturing process. Without inscriptions. The pages are clean, bright and unmarked. The Very Good + condition Dust Wrapper is whole and complete, and is not price clipped. A minuscule amount of edge wear to wrapper, a little mild toning in a few specific areas and one foxing mark. Spine of wrapper slightly sunned but titles are plainly and completely visible. Wrapper now protected by a removable archival cover. Overall this is a nice, clean, tight copy in a rather Uncommon and attractive format in Very Good + condition.…

In-16° pp. 395, bross. edit. con sovrac. ill. lievi segni d'uso.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Orig. blue linen cloth in very good condition. Dust jacket a bit spoiled and with some foxing but in a decent shape. Pages clean and bright.

Rilegato, sovraccopertina, qualche ombratura in copertina.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First trade edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a little soiling.

195 pp.; 21.1 x 15.7 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue number five of the journal "Art and Literature," edited by John Ashbery, Anne Dunn, Rodrigo Moynihan, and Sonia Orwell. Contents include "A Selection from 'The Venice Letters,'" by Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo; "The Feast of Love," by Virgil Thomson; "Poems: 'In the Wood' and 'Ballade,'" by Boris Pasternak; "Poems: 'from Laborintus' and 'from Erotopaegnia,'" by Edoardo Sanguineti; "Narcissus Pseudonarcissus," by Elio Pagliarani; "Poems: 'When I Saw the Willow,' "Grey Clearings are Kindled,' 'from Birthday,' 'from Predilections,'" by Alfredo Giuliani; "Pop Art and Non-Pop Art," by Robert Rosenblum; "Beautiful and Interesting," by Larry Rivers and David Hockney; "The New American Modern Dance," by Jill Johnston; "from 'The Red Robins,'" by Kenneth Koch; "Can we Talk," by Donald Barthelme; "Poems: 'Two Voices,' 'I See the Far,' 'Song of the Golden Gayboy,' and 'Summer to Winter,'" by Soteré Torregian; "Poems: 'Arch Romance in an Orchard,' 'Telegram for Love in Tradition,' 'Apprentice Clockmaker-Clockmaker Abroad,' 'The Two Cronies,' 'Night and Day,' 'Cameos of Philosophy,' 'The Lady in the Avenue of Love,'" by G.W. Watson; "Poems: 'The Betrayal,' and 'from Letters from a Foreign Place,'" by Stephen Donadio; "Poems: 'When Youth Shall This Generation Waste,' and 'Mirage,'" by Gerard Malanga; "Birthday in Bedlam," by Roger Hammer and "On Expression and Expressionism," by Richard Wollheim. Good. Moderate wear to cover edges including 1.1 cm. area of loss to recto edge and tears including 5 mm., 6 mm., and 7 mm., tears to recto. Discrete small rubber stamp logo inside rear cover, otherwise contents clean and unmarked.…