Five Novels by Ronald Firbank (1950)

Second printing, with the Keith Vaughan dustwrapper

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First edition, second printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, xxxi + 472pp.

This copy was owned and signed by Etienne de Villiers Amyot, a South African born Viennese concert pianist who in 1946 became the first planner for The Third Programme (the forerunner of Radio 3) which became one of the leading cultural and intellectual forces in post-war Britain.

Five novels by Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), a British author whose work was championed by Auden, Waugh and Forster. The novels are: Valmouth, The Flower Beneath the Foot, Prancing Nigger, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, and The Artificial Princess. Out of the five, perhaps the best known is Valmouth, based on the lives of various people in a health resort on the West Coast of England and the attempts of two elderly ladies, Mrs Hurstpierpoint and Mrs Thoroughfare, to marry off the heir to Hare-Hatch House, Captain Dick Thoroughfare.

Condition

The book is in good plus condition. The dustwrapper rubbed to the edges with some small amount of damage to the head of the spine. It has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.