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The Quest for Corvo - Copy Owned by Frederic Hood
by SYMONS, A. J. A
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
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About This Item
London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. Pp. 293. Index. Illustrated with three halftone photo reproductions and a manuscript facsimile. Bound in dark blue buckram, two gold panels printed on the spine with lettering left blank. Laid paper, trimmed, top edge dyed dark red. Lightly rubbed covers with mild spine lean and bowed front board. Lacking the dust jacket. Owner signed on FFEP "Frederic Hood, Pusey House, February 1934." Oxford bookseller tag on FPDEP. "An Experiment in Biography" of the eccentric writer Frederic Rolfe a.k.a. Baron Corvo and a landmark in English letters, the masterpiece of bibliographer and epicure Symons. Set in Monotype Bembo and exquisitely printed under Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press, Plaistow. (Bibliographic handlist PHILLIPS, Qh.) Archibald Frederic Hood was Priest-Librarian then Principal at Pusey House, Oxford, 1934-52.
Synopsis
A.J.A. Symons (1900-1941) pursued a wide variety of projects in his short life, writing and editing works on the verse of the 1890s, the history of the Nonesuch Press, and critical studies of various figures of note. He is remembered for his groundbreaking biography of the bizarre genius Baron Corvo and for his own eccentric hobbies, as chronicled in a biography written by his brother, the mystery novelist Julian Symons. A S Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession , The Biographer’s Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Her most recent novel, The Children’s Book was published in 2009.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4785
- Title
- The Quest for Corvo - Copy Owned by Frederic Hood
- Author
- SYMONS, A. J. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Press;
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