Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Robertson Davies's "The Lyre of Orpheus," a Limited edition, Frontispiece by Sherilyn VanValekenburgh, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION series, PERSONALLY SIGNED by ROBERTSON DAVIES, published in 1988. William Robertson Davies Canada's foremost novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor, lived from 1913--1995. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. He received the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, OXFORD. Bound in deep hunter green leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Collector's Letter and Notes is included. Davies assembles a riotous cast, including a rich investor, his scholarly wife, a Gypsy fortune-teller, a cosmetics queen, assorted aristocrats, Rabelais, a brat genius, KING ARTHUR and a churchman turned thief. Handsome young Arthur Cornish is well aware that using the imagination is "not what foundations like to do. He reminds the other directors that "good, safe results" are not what they're after: "Let's back our choice and stir the pot and raise some hell." John Kenneth Galbraith said: "He is one of the most learned, amusing and otherwise accomplished novelists of our time. His novels will be recognized with the very best work of this century." E.T.A. Hoffmann said: "The Lyre of Orpheus" opens the door of the underworld." 472 pages. I offer Combined shipping.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Franklin Library
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1988
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Sherilyn VanValkenburgh
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition, Signed, First Edition
Region: Canada
Author: Robertson Davies
Personalized: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Rabelais comedy
Character Family: Arthur Cornish
