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The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment
by CABELL, James Branch (novel); PAPÉ, Frank C. (illustrations)
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First Edition. One of 2,000 numbered copies, this being copy no.1,770. Octavo (25cm); black cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; red topstain; dustjacket and publisher's original black paper-covered slipcase; x,312,[2]pp, with frontispiece and 7 illustrated plates by Frank Papé. Some faint, scattered foxing to text edges; decorative label of The Sunwise Turn to lower rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.50), gently spine-sunned, with some wear, tears, and creases along the upper edge, and three tiny inked letters at upper spine; Very Good+ in like slipcase, showing some modest shelfwear, particularly around the opening. "An eighteenth-century French youth, imagining himself to be cast in the mold of a hero of chivalric romance, sets out to find his own Holy Grail, a fairytale princess; but this is the Age of Enlightenment, when the illusions of the past are to be set aside brutally, and he learns the extent of his self-delusion. Satire developing the Cervantean worldview in an uncompromisingly sarcastic manner" (Bleiler, Fantasy Literature 3-66). REGINALD 02400; SMITH C-10.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61174
- Title
- The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment
- Author
- CABELL, James Branch (novel); PAPÉ, Frank C. (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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