Search Results: the quest for corvo an experiment by aja symons

Penguin, 1966. Paperback. Good. 1966. Re-Issued. 298 pages. Illustrated paperback. Small stickers to front cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning.

One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten creator. The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. But this singular work, subtitled "an experiment in biography," is also a remarkable self-portrait, a study of the obsession and sympathy that inspires the biographer's art.

New York: Penguin, 1979. 1979 reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine. 7600 shelf. Unread. Trade paperback, pictorial covers. No names, clean text. Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) -- genius or charlatan? Index. N. Mossakowski cover art. Solid. 98 pgs

NYRB Classics, 2001-03-12. Paperback. Used: Good. Excellent customer service. Prompt Customer Service.

New York: New York Review Books, 2001. Paperback. pp. 289. 8vo. Light shelfwear, owner's name to recto front cover; very good-.

NYRB Classics, 2001-03-12. Paperback. Like New.

NYRB Classics, 2001-03-12. Paperback. New.

Paperback. Very Good.

NYRB Classics, March 2001. Paper Back. New.

The Macmillan Co.. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Frederick Rolfe, Biographies, English authors ) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

London, The Folio Society, 1992.. xxx+290pp. 8vo. Original cloth-backed, decorated paper boards. A near fine copy.. First edition thus. Also known as Frederick ('Father') Rolfe.

Ecco Press, 1997,. 1997. Soft cover. 9780880014830 paperback, 8vo, xx,293pp, top corners bum[ped and a few page corners creased, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine not creased, spine faded. Good condition. ISBN: 9780880014830 .

London: The Folio Society, 1992. xxx, 290pp, index, few bw ills. Decorated boards with black cloth spine in slipcase. Near new. Originally issued by Folio in 1952.. Folio Society Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. 8vo.

Cassell and Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 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.

Unread. Folio Society slipcased hardcover. Tight square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Covers clean and unworn. Slipcase clean with no wear.

1992. Reissue. Folio Society, London. 1992. Paper-covered boards patterned in blue and orange with blue cloth backstrip and silver type to spine. xxx + 290 pages. Very clean and sound in blue slipcase.

Folio Society,, 1952. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; decorative boards, black buckram back lettered in gilt, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy.

New York: The Macmillan Co, 1934. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 293, [1]; 4 plates; jacket chipped with occasional small loss, spine darkened, else very good.

1992. Reissue. Folio Society, London. 1992. Paper-covered boards patterned in blue and orange with blue cloth backstrip and silver type to spine. xxx + 290 pages. Very clean and sound in blue slipcase.

London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. Blue cloth gilt. Spine gilt and edges of the edges of the boards rubbed, mark on bottom of page edges, about very good without dust jacket.