Edith Osbert Sitwell (66 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club edition. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. 656 pages. Includes: Introduction; Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference; ENCHANTMENTS: Green is the Color; Wooden Tony; Lest Levitation Come Upon Us; Prince Bull; The Triumph of Vice; Turandina; The Princess and the Frog; WONDERS: Darkness Box; Jack and the Beanstalk; Peter Pan; The Thrush's Nest; Lock-out Time; The Mouse Festival; A Proper Santa Claus; Inside Out; The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime; The Woman Who Thought She Could Read; The Third Level; CREATURES: The Griffin and the Minor Canon; The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles; The Dragons; On the Downhill Side; The Parrot; The Gray Wolf; The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath; The Last of the Dragons; Lila the Werewolf; The Drowned Giant; WORLDS: The Enchanted Buffalo; Narrow Valley; Beyond the Dead Reef; The King's Bride; Under the Garden; ADVENTURES: The Things That Are Gods; The King of Nodland and His Dwarf; The Seventeen Virgins; The Bagful of Dreams; The Hollow Land.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. VG++/G. White cloth hardcover copy with dust jacket. 1947. Light edgewear and browning to pages. Dust jacket has chipping and edgewear and tears and soiling. Nice solid copy.

Condition: Good. 1938. No Edition Remarks. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in boards and dust jacket with light rubbing. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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.

Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine slightly darkened, lower cover slightly marked, free endpapers embrowned. With the (Humphrey Stone) bookplate of Anthony Hobson.

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.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, spine with a few tiny spots, boards with modest edgewear, very good in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket with a small round tear on the spine (affecting the title), tanning, an ink mark on the front flap and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Reading and anthology arranged by Dorothy Dudley Short. 47pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Covers slightly toned at edges, corners lightly bumped, very good. Contains the first appearance of three poems by C. Day Lewis and three poems by Anne Ridler. Also reprints poems by Edmund Blunden, Dorothy Wellesley, Louis MacNeice, Edith Sitwell, T.S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, Osbert Sitwell, Stephen Spender and more.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages Kenneth Clark "On The Development Of Miss Sitwell's Later Style" / Osbert Sitwell "Father And Son" / Martin Turnell "Novelist-Philosophers-XI: Strendhal-I" / C Day Lewis And Edith Sitwell And Stephen Spender (poetry).

Flexible covers. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Duodecimo, 57+ pages, floral boards, paper label, top joint split The fourth volume in Blackwell's The Initiates Series. Poems by poets previously published by Blackwell, here including Dorothy Sayers, Aldous Huxley, Edith & Osbert Sitwell, and A. P. Herbert, among others. Printed by The Vincent Works, Oxford.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, board edges slightly sunned, spine ends bumped, very good in a spine-tanned very good dust jacket with slight foxing and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Andre Masson (illustrator). Soft cover. 21.5x13.5cm. 75 pages, plus 4 pages of black & white reproductions of paintings by Andre Masson. Spine has a little damage at the bottom end. Clean. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F9149.

; 432 pp.; DJ; VG/VG+; . The covers are somewhat curled. . [kwA_ 1st Ed. ].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 164 Pp + Ads By Various Publishers At Rear. Errata Slip Tipped In. Light Yellow Ribbed Boards Printed In Blue, Spine Label. . First Printing. Worn And Dusty, Top And Bottom Of Spine Chipped Away, Spine Label Intact Except For Tiny Chip At Lower Left Corner. Elaborate Pictorial Engraved Bookplate Of Gwynneth Capes.

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.

Condition: Fair. Lot of 3. Softcover in used condition. No marks to text. Rubbing with creasing to cover and edges.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation.

Condition: New.

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.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 47 pp., Soft Covers, Very Good, toning to covers. "Reading and anthology arranged by Dorothy Dudley Short on behalf of the Arts and Letters Sectional Committee of the National Council of Women of Great Britain." Scarce. First Edition.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

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 [.]'.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This Is "A Programme Anthology Of The Poems Read By Their Authors" ."At The Poetry Reading In The Wigmore Hall September 14Th, 1943", Conducted As A Benefit. It Is A 47 Pp Booklet With A Full Page Of Acknowledgement At End, Stating That The Authors All Took Part In The Reading And Gave Permission For The Printing Of Their Poems. There Is Further Citation Of The Publishers For Particular Poems, And To The Authors Who Gave Permission To Print Copyright Material, And A Note That The Poems Of C Day Lewis Were Previously Unpublished, And Heart And Mind By Edith Sitwell Had Previously Appeared Only In The Times Literary Supplement. It Was Printed By Warren & Son, Winchester, But No Limitation Statement Or Price. The Compiler And Editor, Dorothy (Field) Dudley Short, Was The Author Of Children's Books And Books And Chapters Of Books On Sikhism, Reviews, Etc. She Was The Wife Of Caricaturist Norman Dudley Short. An Unused Example, One Of The Editor's Personal Copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.149; [3]. Publisher's white cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of eight shillings and sixpence net to upper. Edges toned, top edge a little dusty, offset toning to endpapers. Dust-jacket a little worn to extremities, some closed tears and chips, splash mark to upper. Very good. A Miscellany.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.