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Rolfe, Frederick, Baron Corvo. Don Tarquinio; A Kataleptic Romance. Chatto & Windus, London, 1905.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [xiii], 257, [4] pp. Cloth binding, gilt lettering spine, no jacket, foxing, overall good condition. (81513).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
ROLFE, Frederick ( Frederick Baron Corvo ).. DON TARQUINIO.. Chatto & Windus,, London,, 1905.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xiii, 257, [32]. Original publisher's mauve cloth, lettered gilt on spine and illustrated in blind on the front cover. Front panel showing an Art Nouveau style image of a page boy type (designed by Frederick Baron Corvo). First edition, second issue. Points on this book are slightly complicated but Woolf describes this exact issue-- this is one of circa 100 copies bound up from the original shhets for Chatto in 1924 with the 1905 date on the title page neatly erased "presumably in an attempt to pass it off as a hitherto unpublished work. There are sufficient of such copies to indicate that the erasure was made by the distributor." Some fading/ tanning at spine and hinge edges of spine and corners slightly bumped, slight splitting at top of front spine hinge, slight rubbing otherwise sound, very good minus with clean text.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$166.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Second Issue. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xiii, 257. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Donald Week's copy with a typed signed letter from the bookseller, Bernard Quaritch, loosely inserted. Donald Weeks was a renowned scholar of the works of Frederick Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo. First edition, second issue, in plain cloth. Slight shelfwear, otherwise very good or better. Decent copy.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Title page printed in red and black. [ii, blank], xiii, [xiv, blank], 257, [1, blank] pp. Bound without ads or catalogue. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolf A7 (1011 copies printed) Half green calf and cloth, t.e.g. Slightest traces of rubbing. Very good Title page printed in red and black. [ii, blank], xiii, [xiv, blank], 257, [1, blank] pp. Bound without ads or catalogue. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Title page printed in red and black. [ii, blank], xiii, [xiv, blank], 257, [1, blank], [4, ads], [1, publisher's device], [1, blank], 32 [catalogue] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolf A7 (1011 copies printed) Half green morocco and cockerell paper over boards, cockerell endpapers, t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Light traces of rubbing. Very good Title page printed in red and black. [ii, blank], xiii, [xiv, blank], 257, [1, blank], [4, ads], [1, publisher's device], [1, blank], 32 [catalogue] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Title page printed in red and black. [ii, blank], xiii, [xiv, blank], 257, [1, blank], [4, ads], [1, publisher's device], [1, blank], 32 [catalogue] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With ownership inscription of science fiction and fantasy critic/anthologist Basil Davenport, dated "Oxford Trinity Term 1928." Davenport studied Classics at Oxford after his 1926 graduation from Yale. Woolf A7 (1011 copies printed) Original violet cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper board blocked in white. Good (cloth faded, edges rubbed; internally clean and sound). Mudie's Library label loosely inserted. Ownership signature of Basil Davenport, Oxford, 1928 Title page printed in red and black. [ii, blank], xiii, [xiv, blank], 257, [1, blank], [4, ads], [1, publisher's device], [1, blank], 32 [catalogue] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.