Ronald Firbank and six other writers deprecated by unimaginative people: [a catalogue of] one hundred items from the collection of Robert Scoble, offered for sale by Callum James Books in May 2016

CALLUM JAMES Books

Published by Portsmouth: Callum James, 2016

About this Item

4to. Wrappers. Edition limited to 40 numbered copies signed by collector and publisher. Fully illustrated in colour, with an essay by the collector on "Firbank's Faith". The successor to the Scoble/James Corvo catalogue of 2013, boasting "A copy in rose covers of Ronald Firbank's first publication Odette, with a rare Laurencin bookplate / A copy of Santal inscribed and dated by Firbank / First editions of all Lord Berners's novels / A dustjacketed copy of Richard Rumbold's exceptionally scarce novel Little Victims / A dustjacketed copy of Gerald Hamilton's elusive autobiography As Young as Sophocles, inscribed by Hamilton / Fine sets of Simon Raven's two novel sequences A[l]ms for Oblivion and The First Born of Egypt [&c]".

Seller Inventory # 15M300130

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ronald Firbank and six other writers deprecated by unimaginative people: [a catalogue of] one hundred items from the collection of Robert Scoble, offered for sale by Callum James Books in May 2016
• Publisher: Portsmouth: Callum James
• Publication Date: 2016
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)