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Cassell, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1934. First Edition. 299 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with dark green lettering. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Minor sunning to spine.

New York: George Braziller, 1994. Paperback. xx, 297p., preface, introduction, note on the text, very good uncorrected advance proof/ARC trade paperback in blue printed wraps. Reissue of Young 3337*. Baron Corvo's "Venice Romance" a uranian love affair between a man and his boy-girl servant Gilda/Zildo.

Nicholas Crabbe, an English student, describes his experiences exploring Venice and falling in love with a Venetian youth named Zildo.

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Da Capo, no date. Paperback, 20 cm, 299 pp. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 0306802589. .

Good. Paperback. 0306802589 . 299 pages. Covers plasticised. With library stamps and labels. Slight wear to spine, covers and corners. .

New Directions, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Introduction by A. J. A. Symons. Foreword by W. H. Auden. A nice copy in a dust jacket that has some wear and chipping, especially at the head and foot of the spine, rear fold has a tear and is splitting at the fold. Some what uncommon edition in dust jacket..

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

London: Cassell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth. First edition stated; later issue with no spine gilt. Armorial Bookplate, edgewear to boards, hinges cracked but holding, mild scattered foxing. In custom slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

1 . hardback. Fine. A Romance of Modern Venice. Introduction by A.J.A.Symons. 1st ed. L.(Cassell) 1934. Fine.

London, Cassell 1934.. x+300pp. 8vo. Original cloth. Previous owners names on ffe. Light foxing to fore-edge and ffe. A very good copy.. First edition.

Cassell, London. 1934.. Hardback.. Very Good-(slight bumping at bottom corners), without dust jacket.

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. x, 299 pp. Original first state green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with slight darkening to spine cloth, light wear, foxing to edges. No jacket. A nice copy.

London: Cassell. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1953. Reprint; Later Printing. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1933 edition with inclusion of W. H. Auden's foreword. Very good+ copy in green cloth with gold titles, lacking the dust jacket. (299pp. ) (Previous owner's book stamp on front end-paper. Light trace of shelf-soiling to cloth. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages .

London : Cassell, 1953. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Near fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 299 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Rolfe, Frederick 1860-1913 ; Fiction. Rolfe, Frederick 1860-1913. Venice (Italy) ; Fiction.

London 1934 first edition. Cassell. Hardcover. intro by A J A Symons. narrow octavo. 299p. Green cloth. VG+ light foxing on closed page ends and end papers. no owner marks. Near Good dj, dj toned, especially backstrip. light edge and corner tip chipping on dj. Pictures available on request. .

London: Cassell. Very Good. 1934. Hardcover. London: Cassell, (1934). First Edition, First State. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration to spine. A fine, bright, tight copy. No dust jacket. .

(New York): New Directions, 1953. First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good-/Good+. Andy Warhol. 8vo. Pp. [i-iv], v-xvi, [2], 299. Introduction by A. J. A. Symons. Foreword by W. H. Auden. Bound in teal cloth with silver lettering stamped on spine. The book appears to have once been improperly stored, with the rear board a bit bowed, but recovering. Cloth with dampstains and smudges. Dust jacket with edge-wear, and light, uniform dampstain on rear panel with a bit of mottling. (Please see photos.) Flap price of $4.00 intact. The allusive Warhol dust jacket illustration perfectly captures Auden's statement that the novel (first published some 40 years earlier) conveys a worldview "through the eyes of a homosexual paranoid." By the time Warhol's illustration went into production, 1953, laws and public mores hadn't budged an iota. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

London: Cassell, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 299 pages. Subjects: Rolfe, Frederick, -- 1860-1913 -- Fiction. Gay men -- Fiction.Venice (Italy) -- Fiction. 20th century fiction.