Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
The Quest for Corvo An Experiment in Biography
by A J A Symons
Publisher: Cassell
London, UK

Year


 		1934 FIRST EDITION
signed by author       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 22 * w 15.2 cm / 293 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000871

Condition Good

Includes four black and white illustrations.
Boards (black with gilt lettering/decoration): wear to edges, corners and spine; corners curved / dented, some white marks to back.Page edges: top dark red with small stain; foot has some motting; leading edge unevenly cut. Front endpaper: small bookseller's sticker; inscription by author (picture). Tear on half-title page. A few pages have dirt marks, rust marks at binding or other stains, but most pages are clean.

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Symons: Quest for Corvo

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Content:

Biography of the writer Frederick Rolfe - aka Baron Corvo. "The Quest for Corvo was a groundbreaking work: rather than being a simple narrative of a life, it describes an author's search for understanding of his subject, revealing aspects of Rolfe's life and character as they are revealed to the author. Though it appears entirely natural, the work is very skillfully orchestrated. The result is a vivid, prismatic portrait of Rolfe, those who knew him, and of Symons himself."

(from Wikipedia)


Background / Biography:

For more information on Frederick Rolfe, including other book(s) about / by him available from Arbery Books, click here.

Alphonse James Albert Symons (16 August 1900 - 26 August 1941) was an English writer and bibliographer. continued on wikipedia

Symons' anthology of 1890s poetry is also available from Arbery Books: click here. 		Robert Ross

Symons founded the Wine and Food Society in 1933



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"My quest for Corvo was started by accident one summer afternoon in 1925, in the company of Christopher Millard. We were sitting lazily in his little garden, talking of books that miss their just reward of praise and influence. I mentioned Wylder's Hand, by Le Fanu, a masterpiece of plot, and the Fantastic Fables of Ambrose Bierce. After a pause, without commenting on my examples, Millard asked: 'Have you read Hadrian the Seventh?' I confessed that I never had; and to my surprise he offered to lend me his copy - to my surprise, for my companion lent his books seldom and reluctantly. But, knowing the range of his knowledge of out-of-the-way literature, I accepted without hesitating; and by doing so took the first step on a trail that led into very strange places."

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