Three Novels: Vainglory; Inclinations: Caprice [3 More Novels of Ronald Firbank]
by Firbank, Ronald; introduction by Ernest Jones
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1951. Firbank's first three novels, the second such collection published by New Directions. Inspired by fin-de-siècle aesthetes, particularly Oscar Wilde, Firbank's thinly-plotted novels consist of mostly dialogue, satirizing society, religion, & sexuality. Jones's introduction further compares him to Djuna Barnes, Joyce and Woolf; Sontag asserts his works are part of the 'canon of camp'; the jacket includes blurbs by Edmund Wilson, Auden, V. S. Pritchett. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured - jacket art by Andrew [Andy] Warhol. First American edition, bound from British sheets. Book shows light wear, but some foxing, both internal & external; jacket rubbed with creases to the spine, ½" by 1" chip to lower rear jacket panel, light edgewear, $5.00 price intact. Text clean; xx, [426] pages, b/w frontispiece portrait.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Andy Warhol. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0162
- Title
- Three Novels: Vainglory; Inclinations: Caprice [3 More Novels of Ronald Firbank]
- Author
- Firbank, Ronald; introduction by Ernest Jones
- Illustrator
- Andy Warhol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Moderrnism, Satire, Ennui, Naughtiness
- Size
- Octavo
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Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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