Woolf Sewell (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First separate edition, 1964, 46 pages, very good condition in publisher's cloth binding, no dust-wrapper, spine slightly faded, cuttings pasted on to end-papers, two bookplates (R E W Maddison and John Blowey). Published in an edition of 150 copies, this copy marked as "Out of Series".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Spine flat and uncreased, appears unread. Bottom cover bumped-torn 1/16 inch next to spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY VARIOUS HANDS FIRST EDITION IN PAPERBACK SIGNATURE OF MARK SAMUELS AS PART OF HIS PRIVATE LIBRARY.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Peter Forster (Cover Design) (illustrator). 128 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Small cut on top corner in front cover. Light foxing on pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages. Pamela Hansford Johnson "The Fascination of the Paranoid Personality" / Cecil Woolf and Father Brocard Sewell "The Clerk without a Benefice: A Study of Rolfe's Conversion and Vocation" / Brian Fothergill "Rolfe and Benson: A Friendship's Downfall" / Victor Hall "The Last Years: Some Memories of Rolfe in Venice, Recalled by Mrs.Ivy van Someren, in an Interview" / George Sims "The Benson-Rolfe Manuscript" / Vivian Godfrey White "The Man who was Buried Alive" (SL#99).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Limited edition. SIGNED by the editor. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 46/300. Signed by both editors. Boards have light shelf rubbing with scuffing and bumping. Binding is sound. Endpages have light scuffing and smudging. Page edges have light scuffing and smudging. Interior pages are unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. First edition. Copy #221 of 300 SIGNED by both editors on colophon page. Near Fine with a little bit of toning to cloth, in original glassine wraps with some tears and creasing, small chip. Essays on Baron Corvo (Frederick Rolfe) an eccentric writer, photographer, and artist with a cult following. Signed by Editor.

hardcover. Condition: Good. exlibrary hardcover book no dust jacket, usual library marks, has some light reader wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair / with Protective Cover. Good condition. The number is out of series written by Cecil Woolf. The d.j. is a blind cover, no lettering. This d.j. has dampstaining, chipping along the edges up to 1" deep and yellowing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. By Both Authors. Numbered.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. One of an edition limited to 150 copies. 46pp. In burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt letteirng on spine. Top edge sprayed red. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Patrick Jenkins, the intrepid publisher of 'New Quests for Corvo with cordial greetings from the co-editor, Cecil Woolf, March 31st 1965". 8vo. Spine cloth heavily faded else neat, clean and crisp throughout. The first separate publication of this essay on Frederick Rolfe/Baron Corvo, first published in 1961 in the anthology 'Corvo, 1860-1890'. Rolfe was an writer, artist, photographer and eccentric perhaps best remembered for Stories Toto Told Me (1898), Hadrian the Seventh (1904) and The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (1934) - the latter was thought lost but found, after Rolfe's death in 1913 in a safe at his publisher's, Chatto & Windus. Entirely comfortable with his sexual orientation, he correspondence and associated with other homosexuals widely and freely.

First Edition. [Essays] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 216 of 300 copies. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 155 [1]. SIGNED and numbered by the editors in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's beige cloth, gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Internally bright and clean. A couple of small, dark marks to lower board. Sunned to spine and top of lower board. Near fine. A tribute to author and eccentric, Frederick William Rolfe. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first separate edition of this 46-page essay, which was originally published in the 1961 Woolf & Sewell-edited anthology 'Corvo, 1860-1960', and is here limited to 150 numbered copies (this being the very first number). Signed by Brocard Sewell on the colophon leaf and inscribed on the front free endpaper: "This copy - number one - is for Anthony Reid, with Cecil Woolf's cordial greetings" (Reid was an avid collector of Corvo). Slim 8vo. 46pp. Purple cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine with the publisher's pink top edge stain. Edges lightly spotted, encroaching a fraction to the fore edge margin of occasional text leaves. A trace of further light spotting to the front endpaper and pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper called for. Signed by Author(s).