Hadrian the Seventh. Frederick Rolfe, “Frederick Baron Corvo”.

Hadrian the Seventh

Chatto and Windus, 1959. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt titles, 413pp. Reissue edition, first thus. Unclipped dust jacket (30s net) moderately worn to edges of panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A handsome later edition of the underground classic novel of a jaded ex-seminarian living in squalor who assumes the Papal throne. A nearly fine copy in mylar.

Price: $50.00

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