CONCERNING THE ECCENTRICITIES OF CARDINAL PIRELLI

by Ronald Firbank

$450 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1926. First Edition. Firbank's final novel, published a month after his death in 1926. Cardinal Pirelli has no story. Indeed, it has only two pieces of action. The book opens before the baptismal font as Pirelli in the full panoply of his office is administering the sacrament to a puppy, a young police dog named Crack. It ends when the naked Cardinal, on the night before his departure for Rome

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.