The Quest for Corvo
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A. J. A. Symons
The Quest for Corvo
Michegan: Michegan State University Press, 1955.
First printing thus.
A remarkable aesthete and connoisseur, Symons was 33 when he became obsessed with the self-styled Baron Corvo and created this account of his quest to discover the then almost forgotten author of 'Hadrian VII'.
Both men constructed a tangled self-image and life-style, "noted for outbursts of elaborate expenditure alternating with extreme aestheticism", but Symons, who was dead at 41, has written one of the great literary detective works of all time, now a rare book in itself.
Jacket has some dirt and edge chipping, particularly to top of spine.
Hardcover.