Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

Second edition
An electric combination of talents, as Collis and Peake interpret an epic tale from Sanskrit literature, concerning the abduction of Sita.
Based on incidents in the central portion of The Ramayana, as Ravana and Rama battle in one of the world's great myths.
Mervyn Peake's illustrations are exceptional.

Hardcover, with slight wear to jacket.

Michegan: Michegan State University Press, 1955. First printing thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. A remarkable aesthete and connoisseur, Symons was 33 when he became obsessed with the self-styled Baron Corvo and created this account of his quest to discover the almost forgotten author of 'Hadrian VII'. Both men constructed a tangled self-image and life-style, "noted for outbursts of elaborate expenditure alternating with extreme aestheticism", but Symons, who was dead at 41, has written one of the great literary detective works of all time, now a rare book in itself. Jacket has some dirt and edge chipping, particularly to top of spine.