The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the Times in Which She Lived. by Ronald Firbank - 1923.

London, UK Grant Richards , 1923. Hardcover First Ed, but unstated. First Ed, but unstated. Very Good in Good DJ: Book shows light wear to extremities; outside edges and endpapers heavily foxed; former bookseller's stamp at rear pastedown; small stamp at decorated front pastedown; . Binding shows slight spine lean, but remains quite secure; text clean. DJ shows fairly heavy wear; some loss to chipping and rubbing at extremities; moderate soiling; price clipped; mylar-protected. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 224pp. Records the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi, title page portrait of the author by Wyndham Lewis. Dj front panel art by Christopher R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946). Hardback with DJ. Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886 – 1926) was an innovative British novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality. The Flower Beneath The Foot (1923), the setting is an imaginary country somewhere in the Balkans. The characters include the King and Queen, sundry high-born ladies about the Court, and the usual attendant chorus of priests and nuns. His novels have been championed by many English novelists including E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Raven. The poet W. H. Auden praised him highly. Susan Sontag named his novels as part of "the canon of camp" in her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'