Baron Corvo Pseud (6 results)
- Softcover
Seller: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, CanadaJune Samaras
Contact seller3-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. "A work of genius- demonic, driven - Hadrian the Seventh explores with compulsive fascination what might happen if an obscure writer, a failed priest, were sudden;y to be elected Pope of the Holy Catholic Church" Clean crisp copy. Book.
Published by New Directions np [Norfolk, CT] nd (c1958), 1958
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
Contact seller5-star seller246pp. 8vo Red cloth 1st American edition Near Fine/no dj.
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Published by Enitharmon Press,, 1977
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- First Edition
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United KingdomIsland Books
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Add to basket8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES.
Published by The First Edition Club, n.d. [1937],, London,, 1937
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- First Edition
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, CanadaBook Stage
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Add to basketHC. Limited Edition xix, 131 pp, Drawings "This is the twenty-third publication of the First Edition Club. It has been designed by Christopher Sandford, and printed in Monotype Poliphilus Roman and new Hellenic Greek type on Eynsford Mill Toned Wove Hand-made paper by the Chiswick Press, New Southgate , London. The binding has b…een executed by the Leighton-Straker Bookbindig Co." The edition was limited to 750 copies. Preface, as well as a loosely inserted printed note to members of the FEC by A.J.A. Symons. Bilingual ed. Greek-English. Green cloth over board with gilt decor., t.e.g. Top edge has a small water stain running into the front fly leaf.
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The Weird of the Wanderer. Being the Papyrus Records of some Incidents in one of the Previous Lives of Mr Nicholas Crabbe. Here produced by Prospero & Caliban.
Rolfe, Frederick William (Baron Corvo (pseud.); Pirie-Gordon, Harry.
Published by London; William Rider & son, 1912., 1912
- First Edition
Seller: Keel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA., Whitley Bay, United KingdomKeel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA.
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Octavo, pp., xxii, 298, [2], 16 publisher's ads. Bound in publisher's original deep violet cloth, upper board blind stamped with Egyptian design with gilt titles, gilt fillets to spine tips, gilt spine titles. Cloth very lightly soiled and ever so slightly rubbed to corners, top-edge dusty. Contents firm and tight… and clean save a small, neat, ink reference to rear paste-down. A very good copy. Superb piece of Edwardian Weird Fiction with strong homoerotic overtones in which the protagonist performs Kemetic rituals to travel to the world of classic myth, embodying Odysseus and King Balthazar of Arabia. Although The Weird of the Wanderer predates the publication of Joyce's Ulysses by 6 years, scholar's have drawn comparisons between the protagonists Nicholas Crabbe and Stephen Dedalus. The work's eccentric author, Frederick William Rolfe (1860 -1913) was a queer Roman Catholic priest, artist, photographer and writer, and whilst he was greatly overlooked in his lifetime he has since come to be regarded as one of the strangest and original authors of the era. Published by occult booksellers William Rider and Sons, who were responsible for the Rider Waite tarot deck, with 12 pages of publisher's ads for esoteric books.
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The Weird of The Wanderer; Being the papyrus records of some incidents in one of the previous lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe
PROSPERO & CALIBAN [Pseud: ROLFE, Fredrick (Baron Corvo); PIRIE-GORDON, Charles Henry]
Published by William Rider & Son, London, 1912
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's deep blue embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 299pp. + [16pp] publisher's ads to rear. Minor scuffing and bumping to spine ends and corners, a little discoloration of the cloth in places, very slight lean; internally clean with some marginal foxing to the prelims…and page edges. A very good, strong copy. A bizarre and often rather unwieldy time travel romp involving the discover of a modern revolver and a handful of sovereigns in an ancient Armenian tomb during an archaeological dig. It transpires that the tomb of the Biblical King Balthazar contains papyri suggesting that he was a time travelling student of the occult who also summoned a number of Egyptian gods, witnessed the birth of Christ and took part in the Trojan War, oh and he also rescues Helen of Troy from Hades and then marries her. One can only assume that those early 20th century British chaps were made of sterner stuff. A typically eccentric piece of rompery from Frederick Rolfe (who laid claim to writing 95% of it, with Pirie-Gordon adding flavor), who never saw a convention, literary or otherwise, that he didn't want to overturn.
