Quest Corvo, First Edition (36 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked copy with tanned edges, clean pages, solid, crease-free spine. BP/LitCrit.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Like New. Copyright 1969. 297 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Publisher's remainder mark on top edge. Synopsis: First published in the United States in 1934, this extraordinary tale follows A.J.A. Symons's eight-year quest to uncover the life story of Frederick Rolfe - a.k.a. the Baron Corvo, a lonely, arrogant genius - and construct something remarkable of it. The author of the brilliant novel Hadrian the Seventh, Corvo was by turns a gifted painter, teacher, student of the priesthood, historian, and inventor of a process of "deep sea photography." He also had a veritable genius for making enemies and lived out his last years as a penniless exile. With letters (many of them masterpieces of invective), excerpts from his novels, and accounts of unusual interviews with Corvo's friends, fans, and enemies, Symons chronicles a passionate investigation into Corvo's secret life - and produces an uproariously comic, ultimately tragic, and stunningly rendered work of art.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($15.00 price intact). Published by Ecco, 1997. Octavo. Paperback Book is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Condition: New. 2018. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book and contents are tight. Pages are clean. The covers hae some light soil and wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. first thus, original cloth backed boards hardcover, illustrated, 290 pages, fine in fine original slipcase. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 6.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by the Macmillan Company, 1934. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is a very good ex-library copy with light shelf wear, typical stamps and markings, dust jacket left flap glued to front pastedown, and pocket affixed to rear endpapers. No dust jacket.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Penguin Books 1940, first thus. Softcover. Tanning to page margins. Binding firm. Book appears unread. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

xxx+290pp. 8vo. Original cloth-backed, decorated paper boards. A near fine copy. First edition thus. Also known as Frederick ('Father') Rolfe.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex library copy, library binding, library markings, lacks first blank page, otherwise a good tight clean copy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st thus 1992. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Introductions by Birkett and Leslie. The reissued edition. Dark blue cloth spine with silver title. Bright red and blue decorative boards. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly rubbed at corners, lightly scuffed and a couple of minor creases to one edge. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

First edition. Hardcover bound in dark blue cloth with gold spine blocking. Four black & white illustrations. A Near Fine copy in a VG-, price-clipped dust jacket. The book has just a touch of dusting. Former owner's inscription penciled on the front fly leaf. The dust jacket has a chip to the head of the spine. Rubs/frays to its corners. Browning to the jacket's spine and panels. Dust soiling to the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. With jacket. Decorative board. Red and white titled dustjacket. xxx, 290 pp. B/w plates. Book and jacket in superb condition. Near as-new. NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE.

8vo, black cloth to boards. First edition. One corner bumped, one mildly bumped. Lacking dust jacket.

Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2018. First printing, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket, 361 pp. This fine edition is limited to 300 copies."The Quest for Corvo is not simply an account of the life and works of that peculiar British author Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo. It is a ground-breaking biography that describes the search for an understanding of its subject, offering aspects of Rolfe's life and character as they are revealed to his biographer. It presents a fascinating portrait of Corvo-artist, rejected candidate for priesthood and author of autobiographical fiction, a man of misdirected genius, frustrated ambition, arrogance and paranoia. The Quest for Corvo is a vivid portrait of the characters associated with Rolfe, the majority of whom found themselves enemies of the man they often attempted to help. And The Quest for Corvo offers an insight into the biographer's fascination for his subject." First printing, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket,

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A Limited Edition hardback(300 copies only). First edition, first printing of the Tartarus limited edition. Unread. This title was originally published in 1934 by Cassell & Co. Ltd. Introduction by Mark Valentine. This new edition contains many photographs of the original documents used by Symons in researching his landmark book, and adds his essay 'Tradition in Biography'SYNOPSIS: The Quest for Corvois not simply an account of the life and works of that peculiar British author Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo. It is a ground-breaking biography that describes the search for an understanding of its subject, offering aspects of Rolfe's life and character as they are revealed to his biographer. It presents a fascinating portrait of Corvo: artist, rejected candidate for priesthood and author of autobiographical fiction, a man of misdirected genius, frustrated ambition, arrogance and paranoia. The Quest for Corvois also a vivid portrait of the characters associated with Rolfe, the majority of whom found themselves enemies of the man they often attempted to help. And The Quest for Corvo offers an insight into the biographer's fascination for his subject. The Quest for Corvoremains one of the greatest biographies ever written and an enduring work of twentieth-century English literature." This is a very heavy book and will weigh approximately 1.5Kg when packed in a box. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. the book is shelf rubbed and edge worn. contents are foxed. ownership inscription and a small sticker. all text is clear and legible. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition Thus, Limited. First edition thus, hardcover, limited to 300 copies, has a moderate lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, mild shelfwear to the cover corners, a touch of smudging to the fore edge of the text block, and a tiny crease to the lower corner of about sixty pages, otherwise a solid, tight Very Good+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has a small bump to the head of the spine, some mild rubbing, and a touch of wear to the cover edges and corners. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. With jacket. Decorative board. Red and white titled dustjacket. xxx, 290 pp. B/w plates.

8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Spine and corner tips a little rubbed. Small patch of residue towards the bottom edge of the front board and the remains of a paper label on the rear pastedown indicating a former library copy, but no other stamps etc. Contents clean. Very good.

Second edition (first edition thus, with this introduction, of a book first published in 1934). Hardcover. A bookseller's small label on the front fixed endpaper, top edge and endpapers slightly foxed, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dustjacket with a few small professionally closed tears. A biography and study of Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo. This second edition carries an informative and poignant 4-page introduction by Julian Symons, the brother of A.J.A.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket or Slipcase. First Edition Thus. Celebrated investigative biography into the life of Baron Corvo, pseudonym of writer Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe (1860-1913). First Edn. Thus, 1952; quarter black cloth; white boards, printed with design in grey/red; titling/decorative crosslets border blocked in gilt (bright) to spine; top edge red; xxx+289+[1]pp.; illus. bw. photos./repros. Spine has faint vertical impressions, but robust/clean/bright; front board slightly rubbed at corners, but boards clean/robust/very bright; small 'smudge' of printing ink (manufacturing defect) to p.73 at top margin, but pages clean/crisp/very bright. Binding firm, all complete/intact. Neat name in ink to front free-endpaper. G+ PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Hardback.

8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; decorative boards, black buckram back lettered in gilt, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing. 293 pp. including index. Some scratches on the boards. Previous owner's name is on the front free endpaper. Spots of foxing on the fore edge and on the margins of some pages. Otherwise fine in a square, tight binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo.pp. 293. Original publisher's cloth binding in dark navy, lettered gilt at spine. Very good indeed. Excellent condition. Covers protected by a clear film jacket.

Blue cloth with spine titling reverese out of silver. Lacks dust-jacket. A very good copy. 'The Quest' is a masterpiece and groundbreaking work: rather than being a simple narrative of a life, it describes an author's search for understanding of his subject, revealing aspects of Rolfe's life and character as they unfold.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). 294 pages. Fine copy in a fairly good price-clipped dustjacket.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Rebound in plain red leather, with slipcase. A bright textblock with slight dustiness to the edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

8vo., Second Edition, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Biro. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1934. The plates of the first edition are omitted. THIS EDITION IS NOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.