Verlag: New Directions, New York, 1951
Anbieter: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. First American Edition. Xx, 425 Pp. Lime Green Cloth, Gilt. First American Edition, 1951, Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain, Dust Jacket Priced $5.00. Book Lightly Used, No Marks Or Fading, Tiny Fray At Lower Rear Tip, Gilt Strong. Dust Jacket With Wears, Tears And Losses, With Almost Half Of Rear Panel And 2/3 Of Rear Flap Completely Torn Away.
Verlag: Duckworth,, 1950
Anbieter: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, Vereinigtes Königreich
First One-Volume Edition. Frontispiece portrait from a pastel by Charles Shannon Spine and covers somewhat darkened and lettering on spine very faint, but a good copy; end-papers spotted.
Verlag: A New Directions Book
Anbieter: Melanie Nelson Books, Livingston, NY, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. ---------Green cloth with gilt spine letters, book is near 9" tall. 426 pages.VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight solid binding, clean text, note cover edges are darkened from age- - dust jacket has picture of winged boy with bow and arrow/ black/white/pink, by Andrew Warhol, stated.the dust jacket is tattered and reassembled under clear mylar cover.
Verlag: New Directions, New York, 1951
Anbieter: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, USA
Erstausgabe
Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Andy Warhol (illustrator). First American Edition. 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. Size: Octavo.
Verlag: New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1951
Anbieter: the good news resource, Park Forest, IL, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Three Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice. Pale-Green Cloth over board hardcover, sound, tight, with clean text. near fine condition. Shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket, priced $5.00.
Verlag: New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1951
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Warhol, Andy (Jacket Design by) (illustrator). 1st. Cloth, xx, 425 pages, portrait; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light chipping at extremities & clipped flaps, protected in a mylar book cover. First American Edition with an early jacket illustration by "Andrew Warhol" (Pop artist and superstar Andy Warhol). Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) was a gay writer much admired by aesthetes in England, following on the heels of Oscar Wilde, but never quite achieving Wilde's eminence, dying at an early age after a life of dissolution. Still, Firbank was much admired by contemporaries such as E. M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh, and later mentioned by Susan Sontag in her famous essay, Notes on Camp. It's appropriate that another openly gay man, Warhol, would be selected to design the jacket for this book. Size: 8vo. Collectible.