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Published by Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1938
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1938. No Edition Stated. 247 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Minor scuffing and marking to boards.
Published by LEGARE STREET PR, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016517513ISBN 13: 9781016517515
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
Book Print on Demand
PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by Duckworth, London, 1928
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
First Edition
Patterned Paper Boards. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Albert Rutherston (illustrator). First Edition. x, 24pp, illustrated with three black & white portraits by Albert Rutherston, occasional patched of light foxing, pages very slightly wrinkled, pasted endpapers have damp staining to lower half, patterned paper-covered boards with a paper title label to upper board. Size: 7.5 x 4.75 Inches. Bibliography.
Published by London: Macmillan, 1938
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine slightly darkened, lower cover slightly marked, free endpapers embrowned. With the (Humphrey Stone) bookplate of Anthony Hobson.
Published by London, Rupert Hart-Davis [1971, 1963]., 1971
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Second edition, revised (so stated). 8vo. New 3 page preface. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine. 432 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
Published by London: Rupert Hart-Davis, (1971). (1971)., 1971
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, (1971). (1971). Fine. - 8vo, red cloth titled in gilt, in dw. Lightly bumped. 432 pp. Bottom corners of a few rear pages lightly creased. Lightly soiled, else near fine. Second edition, revised.
Published by duckworth london 1928, 1928
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
first edition 24pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (dec.paper boards w.title label to top board,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.browned spine,sl.wear to extrems.,eps and edges sl.foxed).
Published by Macmillan, London, 1938
Seller: Harris & Harris Books, Clare, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. George Cruikshank (illustrator). 1st Edition. Delivered as the Northcliffe lectures at the University of London in 1937. Contents include: Dickens And The Modern Novel, The Modern Novel: It's Cause And Cure, Three Eras Of Modern Poetry, Palladian England and George Cruikshank. Red/brown cloth boards, rubbed at extremities. Gilt lettering to spine. Mark from sticker removal on front board. No inscriptions or plates. End papers age darkened with date stamp on rear pastedown. Internally clean and tight to spine.
Published by Macmillan Company, London, 1938
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First edition. Reddish cloth binding, light wear to edges and corners, bright spine gilt stamping, minor rubbing, very clean. Well bound, covers firmly attached, former owern's penciled name and date of 1939. Pages are unmarked, a few pages have some discoloration, limited, overall very attractive presswork and paper. No dust jacket. The essay on Cruikshank has 8 illustrated plates. Uncommon. ["Dickens and the Modern Novel" and "The Modern Novel: its Cause and Cure" by Osbert Sitwell; "Three Eras of Modern Poetry" (two lectures) by Edith Sitwell; "Palladian England" and "George Cruikshank" by Sacheverell Sitwell].
Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1979
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
A family's biography. Pp. [ii]+534, 20 plates, sources and references, index; med. 8vo; qr. black cloth, spine lettered n gilt, yellow papered boards, bottom fore-corners a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; fore-edges of leaves slightly soiled; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1979. First U.S. edition, second impression. *First published in the U.K. in 1978, under the title Facades.
Published by Place and date not stated
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
On 8 x 12.5 cm piece of paper, torn from the end of a letter. In fair condition, aged and lightly spotted. On one side of the slip is the conclusion of the letter: '[.] | Yours very sincerely | Edith Sitwell'. On the other side is the following autograph fragment: '[.] kind of you to invite me to your lumcheon party on Tuesday, and I am looking forward to it so much. I have not seen you for [.]'.
Published by Hart-Davis 1963., 1963
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition, gilt cloth. C.pp394, neat little booklabel on endpaper, newspaper review neatly tipped to rear endpaper, couple of trifling marks to binding, an excellent copy. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.
4to. viii+60pp. Original cloth in dustwrapper (defective at backstrip). Hand-coloured frontispiece and title vignette, b/w illustrations. Heavy off-setting to endpapers, otherwise an excellent copy. Limited edition of 375 copies.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition (published simultaneously with hardback). Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with examples of work by Cocteau, Roger Fry and many others. National Portrait Gallery, 1994. 4to. Wrappers with portrait of the Sitwells on upper cover. Near fine.
Published by Dated on back 25 August From MACMILLAN & Co. Ltd. / St. Martin s St. London W.C.2. , 1949
See his entry, and those of his siblings, in the Oxford DNB. A 15.5 x 20 cm black and white print, on glossy paper. Worn at edges, and with staining to blank area at top left. Stamped by the publishers on the reverse with Sir Osbert Sitwell. Bt. / 25. 8. 49. There is a possibility that this is a signature by Sitwell, but the letter O and other features are not quite right. The portrait is a head and shoulders shot, at an angle, with head just about facing the camera (although turned to the right): with hair slicked back, piercing eyes looking to right and upwards, tight-lipped in modern suit and tie, white shirt and handkerchief, buttonhole.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis,, 1971
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Second, Revised Edition. Very nice copy in slightly marked dust-wrapper.
Published by The Fleuron., London, 1924
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Drawings by Albert Rutherston (illustrator). Limited Edition. Dust jacket with tear to front panel and chipping to spine ends, leading to slight discoloration to top of boards, otherwise a nice copy of a charming book #183 of 375 printed.A fine limited edition of the Sitwells' poetry, published by The Fleuron and printed by the Curwen Press, Plaistow.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Albert Rutherson (illustrator). First edition. A bright first edition of this Limited Edition volume of poetry from the Sitwell siblings, illustrated by Albert Rutherston. The first edition of this work, number two-hundred and fifty-nine of three-hundred and seventy-five copies produced.A wonderful collection of poetry from the Sitwell's, the group of three siblings - Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell - who formed an identifiable literary group in London between 1916 and 1930. Divided into three sections with divisional half titles, and with contributions from each sibling.Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page vignette, and headpiece - all in colour - alongside a number of further head and tail pieces, all the work of artist and illustrator Albert Rutherston. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail with a touch of fading to front board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. The odd spot to the first few leaves, pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good. book.
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. Cloth with dust jacket. 432 p. 2nd revised edition. Fine copy.
Published by The Fleuron, London, 1925
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited edition, this is number 194 of 375 copies. 60pp. Drawings by Albert Rutherston. Offsetting and light foxing on endpapers, cloth edges lightly faded, else near fine in the scarce albeit fair only darkened dustwrapper, spine split, extremities chipped.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016512414ISBN 13: 9781016512411
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Book
Gebunden. Condition: New.
Published by The Fleuron., London, 1925
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
4to. 7.75 x 10 inches. [x] + 60 pp. Separate half titles for each section. Bound in original red cloth, gilt. Deckled edges. Spine sunned and front and rear endpapers darkened through contact with binding; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by frontispiece, title page and headpeice vignette in colour, and by black and white tailpiece vignettes. The poems are divided into three sections, including Long Winter, Twelve Songs by Osbert Sitwell and Twelve Poems by Sacheverell Sitwell. Arthur Rutherston (1881-1953) was artist and book illustrator, educated at the Slade. He also designed stage sets and tickets and posters for the London Underground. A fine limited edition of the Sitwells' poetry, published by The Fleuron and printed by the Curwen Press, Plaistow. The Fleuron was a typography journal founded by Stanley Morison and others in 1922 which appeared in seven issues, 1923-30. The Curwen Press (1863-1984) was at the forefront of the early twentieth century design revolution in British printing and many well known graphic artists worked for it. ART / LITERATURE POETRY POETRY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED PRINTERS ART / LITERATURE.
Published by The Fleuron, 1925
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tall quarto, original cloth, faded, uncut. Printed at the Curwen Press in an edition of only 375 copies of which 350 were for sale. Fifoot EA 10; OA 9; SA 8. The very rare first and only edition.
Published by The Fleuron, London, 1925
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
Tall quarto, original cloth, faded, uncut, nice in original dust jacket which is only slightly worn. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is copy 176 of 375 copies of which 350 were for sale. Fifoot EA 10; OA 9; SA 8. The very rare first and only edition.
Seller: Herbst-Auktionen, Detmold, Germany
Signed
THE SCARLET TREE (Autobiography, II. Vol. of LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND !) Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London 1950, 319 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, rotes Oln. 8°, Vorderdeckel eine Ecke leicht bestoßen), mit Schutzumschlag, sonst gut erhalten - mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert "For Doctor Max Rinkel with gratitude and best wishes from OSBERT SITWELL".
Published by [Plaistow, England:] Duckworth, 1928., 1928
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Special edition, limited to seventy numbered copies with a duplicate suite of plates housed in a folded-over back cover. Each of the portraits is signed by its subject. Octavo. [2], x, 24 pp. Index. Three lithographic portraits. Original decorative cloth with paper label on front cover. Spine a bit faded. Otherwise fine.
Published by Columbia Records, 1953
Seller: Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1953 Deluxe issue of this complete collection of 12 spoken word recordings housed in its original leather attache case. Contains all twelve original Long-Playing 33 1/3 records, each in their own original printed black paper sleeve. Stored in the pocket in the attache case is the book with a description of the readings on each record and a preface by Goddard Lieberson. The sound quality is excellent. There is a surface scratch in the middle of Christopher Isherwood Side 2 that causes an audible tick for a few minutes but does not cause the content to skip. Please note that these recordings are monaural and were recorded in the days before Stereo sound. A few of the black printed sleeves have small tears along the edges and the leather attache case is missing the original leather closing snaps. Otherwise in excellent condition. Please see all images. Feel free to contact us to discuss. Complete set is very heavy; over 10 lbs. International shipping will require significant additional shipping charges.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Deluxe issue of this collection of spoken word recordings housed in original leather attache case and including a book describing the readings on each record. Contains eleven of the twelve original long play 33 1/3 records (lacking the Aldous Huxley). Book in fine condition. Records a bit dusty but look to be in exceptional condition. Original printed sleeves show small splits and tears. Leatherbound case lacks original closing snaps. Sold as-is. A near complete set of these rare recordings. Steinbeck reads The Snake and Johnny Bear. Capote reads Children On Their Birthdays. Isherwood reads from A Berlin Diary. etc. Series edited by Goddard Lieberson. Rare.