About this title: 1924. Best known for his witty, ingenious novels, Ronald Firbank began his literary apprenticeship as a writer of short stories. In his writings he cultivated a style which, through his use of dialogue and concentration of language and image, is considered today to be quite innovative. One of his most popular novels, The Flower Beneath the Foot ...
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Edition: Crown 8vo. 1st ed. (Benkovitz A9). 224, [8] pp. Last 8 pp
Binding: Black cloth binding lettered in gilt. No dust jacket.
Publisher: Grant Richards,, London:
Date Published: 1923.
Description: Overall VG (cloth dull, with a modest bit of soiling & wear/rear joint cloth starting at top 1/2"/modern bpt to ffep/light foxing). Decoration by C. R. W. Nevinson & portraits by Augustus John & Wyndham Lewis. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781432607739ISBN:1432607731
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00240 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardback) read more
Edition: First American
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brentano's, New York
Date Published: 1924
Description: About Near Fine jacket. Brentano's. New York, 1924. First American. One of Firbank's most popular novels. Near Fine in black cloth in an About Near Fine dust jacket with modest shelf wear at spine tips. Number 44 in Connolly's The Modern Movement. 229p (p) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brentano's, New York
Description: [1924], 1st American edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 229pp. Gilt lettering on black cloth. Frontispiece with a tissue guard, title page illustration of the author. There are minor tears, edgewear and chipping to an otherwise quite presentable dust jacket. There is a portrait of Ronald Firbank done by Wyndham Lewis on the title page. Frontispiece by C.R.W. Nevinson. Illustration by Wyndham Lewis. (Fiction) read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brentano's, New York
Date Published: 1924
Description: Very good++ to near fine in boards. First U.S. edition. Includes a three page Introduction by the author specially written for this edition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: KESSINGER PUB LLC
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781417911370ISBN:1417911379
Description: New. 1924. Best known for his witty, ingenious novels, Ronald Firbank began his literary apprenticeship as a writer of short stories. In his writings he cultivated a style which, through his use of dialogue and concentration of language and image, is cons... read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grant Richards
Date Published: 1923
Description: Good. Hardcover, in Good condition, no DJ. Black cloth binding has edgewear/rubbing, corners bumped. Pages clean/tanned, binding tight. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Brentano's, New York
Date Published: 1924
Description: Very Good. 12mo. 229 pp. Spine faded, spine and corners bumped. Few pages roughly opened, Inkstamp, bookseller label rpd. Novel. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brentano's, New York
Date Published: 1924
Description: Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. 8vo; 5 p.l. & 229 pages; 1924 First US Editon (NY, Brentano's). Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt. Pictorial dust jacket (repeating an orange portrait frontispiece by C.R.W. Nevinson. There is a damp mark to the front panel of the dust jacket (with distinct lightening of the grey field, affecting the portrait) which extends to a mark on the front cover (with minor loss of the black, which has faintly transfered to the verso of the dust jacket). The ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brentano's, New York
Date Published: 1924
Description: Collectible-Very Good in Good jacket. Black Cloth Covered Boards. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 229 pages. First printing of the first edition. The book is clean and tight with fading along the spine; endpapers tanning; pages lightly toned. The dust jacket isattractive withminor chipping at corners and spine extremities; spine is faded with a couple of small water stains. read more
Edition: F First Edition, Limited
Binding: H hardcover
Publisher: Grant Richards
Date Published: 1923
Description: Good in J As Is jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Limited to 1000 copies; dustjacket very barely sunned, back flap soiled, spine ends chipped, otherwise intact; cover very barely sunned, edges/corners lightly rubbed/bumped; endpapers lightly sunned, internal hinge very slightly exposed at front endpapers, previous owner's name on front endpaper; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except where noted. read more
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