First American publication of Rolfe’s romance between his alter ego, Nicholas Crabbe, and the cross-dressing Venetian gondolier Zildo/Gilda. With a foreword by W.H. Auden, who found it “quite terrifying,” and an introduction by A.J. Symons, Rolfe’s biographer. With an early dust-jacket design by Andy Warhol. [READING ANDY WARHOL p. 27].

$250