STACPOOLE, H ENRY DE VERE (8 résultats)

16mo, pp. [1-4] 5-159 [160], original decorated gray wrappers printed in blue. First edition. Issued as Benn's "New Ninepenny Novels" Number 7. Commercial fiction from one of the popular Georgian writers of the day. A fine copy. (#114207).

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. spine bumped and sunned, publisher's catalogue, scattered spotting, green and blue title-page, good. first edition; 357 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. First impression of the second edition. Undated but c1920-1. (The first edition was published in 1920, and the contemporaneous inscription on the recto of the half-title page is dated 2.9.21). Translated into English by H. de Vere Stacpoole. ***Very good in grey-blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and rules to blue spine. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners of boards slightly bumped. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Contemporaneous inscription and date in black fountain pen ink to recto of half-title page: 'Friends in the fellowship of sport. Quis Separabit 2.9.21.' with intertwined monogram above inscription also in fountain pen ink. (Quis separabit? in Latin: Who will separate [us]?) is a motto associated with Ireland e.g. the British Army by the Royal Dragoon Guards, the Royal Ulster Rifles, the London Irish Rifles, the Irish Guards, and the North Irish Horse, and the motto of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick. The motto is also on the Seal of South Carolina). Slight offsetting to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Very light sporadic foxing to prelims and last pages and to a few interior pages. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. ***79 pages including index to rear. 294 x 126mm. ***Contains the Hymn to Aphrodite and fifty-two fragments together with Sappho to Phaon, Ovid's Heroic Epistle XV plus seven-page introduction on Sappho by the author and a poetic two-page foreword by the author. ***Poems: I. Hymn to Aphrodite; II. Ode to Anactoria; III. Where Blooms the Myrtle; IV. I Loved Thee; V. Invocation; VI. Clais; VII. To a Swallow; VIII. Love; IX. Wedding Song; X. Evening; XI. Maidenhood; XII. Moonlight; XIII. Orchard Song; XIV. Dica; XV. Grace; XVI. As on the Hills; XVII. To Atthis; XVIII. As Wind Upon the Mountain Oaks; XIX. Goodness; XX. The Fisherman's Tomb; XXI. Timas; XXII. Dead Shalt Thou Lie; XXIII. Death; XXIV. Alcaeus and Sappho; XXV. The Altar; XXVI. The Altar (2); XXVII. Love; XXVIII. Like the Sweet Apple; XXIX. Prophesy; XXX. For Thee; XXXI. Friend; XXXII. The Moon Has Set; XXXIII. The Sky; XXXIV. To Her Lyre; XXXV. Never on any Maiden; XXXVI. * * *; XXXVII. Anger; XXXVIII. Adonis; XXXIX. Leda; XL. The Captive; XLI. Invocation; XLII. Youth and Age; XLIII. Fragment; XLIV. The Lesbian Singer; XLV. On the Tomb of a Priestess of Artemis; XLVI. To a Bride; XLVII. Hermes; XLVIII. Adonis; XLIX. Sleep; L. The Form is Lovely; LI. The Bridegroom; LII. Regret; LIII. Fragment; LIV. Sappho to Phaon.*** Henry de Vere Stacpoole (9 April 1863¿12 April 1951) was an Irish author, born in Ireland in Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire). His hugely successful novel "The Blue Lagoon" was published in 1908, and adapted into film. As well as translating Sappho, he also translated François Villon and wrote a biography on him. ***First impression of the second edition of Sappho: A New Rendering by H. de Vere Stacpoole, published only a year after the first edition (1920), complete in nice, collectable condition in its original cloth binding. An extremely hard to find title, of interest to collectors of Sappho and H[enry] de Vere Stacpoole. (Only six copies of this title are listed on COPAC in the UK, three first editions and three second editions). Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Octavo, pp. i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 9-307 [308], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, gray endpapers. First U.S. edition. "A romance to be sure, but a romance in terms of delicate realism . A finely written study of a man who, in the midst of intense commercial activity, suddenly see romance and follows his dream of youth and springtime and beauty" (from the jacket blurb). A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with some edge wear and dust soiling, latter mainly to spine and rear panels. (#105264).

Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [3-6] 7-307 [308-310: blank], publisher's pictorial tan cloth, front panel stamped in orange and black, spine panel stamped in black. First edition, Canadian issue. Printed from the American plates ("Press of / Vail-Ballou Company / Binghamton, N. Y."). Reincarnation Romance. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Spine roll, a very good copy. A scarce book. (#171629).

First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-306 [307-316: ads], original brown cloth, front stamped in yellow, gray, blue and dark brown; spine stamped in yellow, dark brown and gray, publisher's device stamped to rear cover in dark brown. A murder mystery and detective story about a fiendish artist who, after serving 25 years for murder in France, learns how to make convincingly lifelike masks, which he uses to impersonate a string of victims, whom he then viciously stabs and mutilates. Hubin, Crime Fiction II, p. 763. Foxing to page edges, mild rubbing to cloth edges, corner tips a little soft, a very good or somewhat better copy (17383).

Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [1] 2-163 [164] + 12-page publisher's catalogue dated 1897 inserted at rear, original tan cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in brown, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Appears to be the author's third work of fiction, preceded by THE INTENDED: A NOVEL (1894) and PIERROT! A STORY (1896). "Excellent supernatural novella concerning gender, curses, reincarnation and fate. A curse hangs over the Wilder family, springing from a crime of passion committed centuries earlier when Gerald Wilder murdered his beloved Beatrice Sinclair, then himself. The fulfillment of the curse, the accidental killing of every male Wilder heir by a Sinclair, is always presaged by the sound of a spectral trumpet. Now, behind the walled-in massive Yorkshire estate, current family head James is determined to break the curse by uniting in marriage his eldest son, Gerald, with the last remaining Sinclair female, Beatrice. He finds her, down on her luck and walking the streets, rescues her and sends her up to the estate. Ancestral memories stir in her as she approaches it, but they are the memories of a man. Another wrinkle in the fabric of prospective matrimonial bliss is that, in another effort to break the curse, James has dressed, named and raised his son Gerald, 16, as a girl. Only he and the old butler know the truth about his identity. The other staff know him as Geraldine. Geraldine has never been outside the walls of the estate and, in fact, is quite hazy on the whole concept of 'male' and 'female.' Into this world Beatrice arrives and promptly falls in love with Geraldine. It becomes evident that 'Geraldine' is the reincarnation of the original Beatrice Sinclair, while the current Beatrice is the reincarnation of the original Gerald Wilder. In these reversed roles, they fall in love again. Beatrice, falling increasingly under the spell of the original Gerald Wilder, comes to see that she should leave immediately, breaking her and Geraldine's heart, in order to expiate the crime. Then she decides that the only way to end the curse is to re-enact (or, technically, reverse) the original crime. Wandering in the attic one day, she finds the original Gerald's costume, with sword and trumpet. Seized by a kind of battle lust, she puts these on and sounds the trumpet. Going downstairs, she finds Geraldine, weak with passion for her. She goes to get some wine to revive her but mistakenly brings back the opium drink to which Geraldine has become addicted. He drinks this and dies, and, a few months later, the brokenhearted, tubercular Beatrice dies. The curse has triumphed again. Stacpoole gets across the feeling of youthful passion. By pairing the idea of reincarnation with that of the ancestral curse, he makes the former more believable for a Western reader, and offsets the danger of predictability by means of the double gender reversal. A first-rate tale." - Robert T. Eldridge. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 204. Bleiler (1978), p. 184. Reginald 13531. Wolff 6502. No copy in the Norman Colbeck collection which had 32 of Stacpoole's books. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Spine panel a bit tanned, hairline cracks along inner hinges professionally mended, a very good copy. A very scarce book. Enclosed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box. (#154549).

Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [1] 2-163 [164] + 12-page publisher's catalogue dated 1897 inserted at rear, original tan cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in brown, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Appears to be the author's third work of fiction, preceded by THE INTENDED: A NOVEL (1894) and PIERROT! A STORY (1896). "Excellent supernatural novella concerning gender, curses, reincarnation and fate. A curse hangs over the Wilder family, springing from a crime of passion committed centuries earlier when Gerald Wilder murdered his beloved Beatrice Sinclair, then himself. The fulfillment of the curse, the accidental killing of every male Wilder heir by a Sinclair, is always presaged by the sound of a spectral trumpet. Now, behind the walled-in massive Yorkshire estate, current family head James is determined to break the curse by uniting in marriage his eldest son, Gerald, with the last remaining Sinclair female, Beatrice. He finds her, down on her luck and walking the streets, rescues her and sends her up to the estate. Ancestral memories stir in her as she approaches it, but they are the memories of a man. Another wrinkle in the fabric of prospective matrimonial bliss is that, in another effort to break the curse, James has dressed, named and raised his son Gerald, 16, as a girl. Only he and the old butler know the truth about his identity. The other staff know him as Geraldine. Geraldine has never been outside the walls of the estate and, in fact, is quite hazy on the whole concept of 'male' and 'female.' Into this world Beatrice arrives and promptly falls in love with Geraldine. It becomes evident that 'Geraldine' is the reincarnation of the original Beatrice Sinclair, while the current Beatrice is the reincarnation of the original Gerald Wilder. In these reversed roles, they fall in love again. Beatrice, falling increasingly under the spell of the original Gerald Wilder, comes to see that she should leave immediately, breaking her and Geraldine's heart, in order to expiate the crime. Then she decides that the only way to end the curse is to re-enact (or, technically, reverse) the original crime. Wandering in the attic one day, she finds the original Gerald's costume, with sword and trumpet. Seized by a kind of battle lust, she puts these on and sounds the trumpet. Going downstairs, she finds Geraldine, weak with passion for her. She goes to get some wine to revive her but mistakenly brings back the opium drink to which Geraldine has become addicted. He drinks this and dies, and, a few months later, the broken-hearted, tubercular Beatrice dies. The curse has triumphed again. Stacpoole gets across the feeling of youthful passion. By pairing the idea of reincarnation with that of the ancestral curse, he makes the former more believable for a Western reader, and offsets the danger of predictability by means of the double gender reversal. A first-rate tale." - Robert T. Eldridge. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 204. Bleiler (1978), p. 184. Reginald 13531. Wolff 6502. No copy in the Norman Colbeck collection which had 32 of Stacpoole's books. Touch of dust soiling to cloth, mostly spine panel, else a near fine copy. A very scarce book. (#90992).