"Five Novels" 1961 FIRBANK, Ronald
$150
The flower Beneath the Foot / Prancing Nigger / Valmouth / The Artificial Princess / Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli.
With an introduction by Osbert Sitwell.
FIRBANK, Ronald
[342] pp.
New Directions
1961
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
VG/ VG
w/ 2 page hand-written letter laid-in w/ book review
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality.