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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography
by Symons, A. J. A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/Poor
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue-grey cloth, top edge dyed red, [xiv), 293 pp, 4 b & w ill., index. Spine faded, light overall wear, front endpapers browned by clippings laid in. Only part of one flap of the DJ remains. J Harold Kittleson's copy, with these items laid in: the blurb from the dust jacket, a book dealer's catalogue listing 30 items relating to Corvo (Frederick Rolfe), and two book reviews, one of a later book on Corvo, the other apparently unrelated. According to the DJ, Symons "takes the reader with him as he follows the trail through letters, personal interviews and revelatory unpublished manuscripts" to piece together a picture of the life of "this outcast," who "sat in a garret or a gondola and poured out magnificent prose. Nor was his bitter pen confined to his novels for this biography contains a large number of his letters which are masterpieces of invective." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Early printing. . VG/Poor. 22½ X 15 cm.
Reviews
On Oct 6 2010, EarlEDoors said:
I first came across the name of Aleister Crowley when I acquired a copy of Maugham’s 1907 novel ‘The Magician’. The character Oliver Haddo is said to be based on Crowley. It made me want to read more.Symons’ book is a scholarly work if it is sometimes written in the style of a boys own adventure story. It traces, quoting its sources, a life which began in London in 1860 and ended in Venice in 1913.In between these dates the subject lived the live of a chancer;of a ‘ducker-and-diver’ and died in poverty. There is very little mention of his writings other than his novel Hadrian 1V,although he wrote copiously on the black arts (The Goetia,The Book of the Law etc) and no mention of his infamous stay in Sicily mentioned by Cammell (Aleister Crowley the Black Magician 1969).However, reading ‘The Search for Corvo’ with no other knowledge about Crowley you feel that you have read a well-written thoroughly researched study of a very unusual man.(To confuse the picture further see also ‘The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuberg’ Fuller 1990)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BI00018
- Title
- The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography
- Author
- Symons, A. J. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- Early printing
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
- Size
- 22½ X 15 cm
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