Second printing of the US edition of Firbank's first novel, in the rare jacket, a Wilde-inspired tale of a woman working to memorialize herself in stained glass.
Very good in very good minus jacket.
Price: $50.00
"Ronald Firbank is a better and a more serious writer than it has ever been fashionable to suppose." — Ernest Jones
As journalist Philip Womack has written: "Without Ronald Firbank we would not have Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green. His ultimate descendant is William Burroughs."
Read more: Jones, Introduction to the New Directions edition of Firbank's Three Novels (1951); Sontag, "Notes on Camp"; Womack, "Vainglory: with Inclinations and Caprice by Ronald Firbank," The Guardian; Benkovitz, A Bibliography of Ronald Firbank, A2b.
New York: Brentano's, (1925). 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original full orange cloth with gilt titles. In original color pictorial jacket (no price, as issued) designed by Joseph Fannell. Color frontispiece by Felicien Rops (printed from the original blocks). 256 pages. Jacket spine toned. Some chipping and edgewear, a couple of small tears (repaired). Two small stains to lower edge of book. Minor shelfwear. Overall, sound.
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