The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography

by A. J A. Symons

$450 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Cassell & Co, Ltd., 1934. First edition. Signed by A.J.A. Symons, warmly inscribed to Donald van den Bergh, possibly the former director of Unilever. xii , 293 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing, lacking dust jacket. A biography of gay writer and artist Frederick Rolfe, who wrote as Baron Corvo. Item #140943745

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