Search Results: the quest for corvo by aja symons

NYRB Classics, 2001-03-12. paperback. Very Good. 0x6x9. Paperback book,

Penguin Books Ltd, 1966. Paperback. Good. 1966. Reissued. 297 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Small tears and chipping, with heavy tanning and marking overall. Book is slightly curled.

Penguin Books, 1966-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1966 Mass market paperback. Shelf wear and staining to covers and edges. Pages are tanned, but unmarked.

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.

Penguin Books. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1934. Later Printing. Softcover. 014000291X . A crisp, clean, tightly bound softcover copy appearing unread, presenting light shelf wear only. Read descriptions carefully. Avoid GLASSFROGBOOKS, ERGODOBOOKS, MORE BOOKS, IRISH BOOKSELLERS, PRO QUO/BAYSIDE BOOKS, BOOKSPLEASE, RIA CHRISTIE, DISCOVER BOOKS, BOOKS2ANYWHERE, BOOKS EXPRESS, CHIRON MEDIA! These "Booksellers" have no books of their own.... they buy honest booksellers' books, upcharge you and have no idea what the book is really like. Support your local and small bookstore owners! .

Penguin Books Ltd, 1966. Paperback. Good. 1966. 297 pages. Paperback book with pictorial 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 tanning.

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.

Quartet Books, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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

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.

Paperback. Very Good.

Baltimore, MD, et al.: Penguin Books, Inc., 1969. Copyright 1969 . Mass Market Paperback. Like New. 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 297 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Publisher's remainder mark on top edge. Synopsis: First published in the United States in 1934, this extraordinary tale follows A.J.A. Symons's eight-year quest to uncover the life story of Frederick Rolfe - a.k.a. the Baron Corvo, a lonely, arrogant genius - and construct something remarkable of it. The author of the brilliant novel Hadrian the Seventh, Corvo was by turns a gifted painter, teacher, student of the priesthood, historian, and inventor of a process of "deep sea photography." He also had a veritable genius for making enemies and lived out his last years as a penniless exile. With letters (many of them masterpieces of invective), excerpts from his… Read More

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

Folio Society, 1992. Fine. Symons, A.J.A.. The Quest for Corvo. Birkett, Norman, (editor); Leslie, Shane. London: Folio Society, 1992. 290pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Near fine. Slipcase in very good condition with light rubbing.

Penguin Books, 1966-01-01. Paperback. Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

NYRB Classics, March 2001. Paper Back. New.

Folio Society, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/good. vg in a good dust jacket

The New York Review Books Incorporated , pp. xviii + 289 . Papeback. New.

Cassell & Company, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Biography Dust jacket has a few small tears/chips, edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine, very slightly soiled/stained. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. No writing.