VAINGLORY

by Ronald Firbank

$50 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

New York: Brentano's, 1925 . 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. Item #55089 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.

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