Sitwell Ed Edith (34 results)

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VERY GOOD CONDITION, A small check mark near a very few poems ; Gold spine titles on dark blue cloth hard covers. Large EL in script bottom spine.INDEX OF AUTHORS.ALL ON NICE WHITE MATTE PAPER. ; 351pg pages. Illustrated by Decorated Endpapers "EL"(orange) (illustrator). …

Condition: Good. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 86 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Reissue edition of 1928. In Very Good+ condition; light wear at edges.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. worn red board, no dustjacket, minor foxing to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In a black hardcover with gilt titles to spine. No dust jacket. 82 pp. The book is in good + condition. There is very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight. There is a dedication to the title page. Otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Unmarked book in clean burgundy cloth; dj with two short tears to head of spine. 286 pp (51 page introduction by Sitwell).

No Jacket. first edition 381pp VG (blue cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled w.spine sl.sunned,sl.bumps to extrems.,eps sl.foxed) lacks d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Impression. some wear to covers and cover edges, owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

hardback, 8vo, 286pp, pages browning, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, grey cloth, red and gilt spine titles, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Pictorial paper-covered boards with black cloth spine & paper spine label. 1st edition. 104pp. Covers quite worn. Interior good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK paperback. Uncommon. 47pp. VG with ome browning to covers.

Condition: Good. 1928. 1928 Reprint. 123 pages. No dust jacket. White pictorial boards with a cloth spine. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Good DJ. First edition. Cloth worn and marked; edges and eps slightly discoloured. Dw worn and marked, with chipping and small tears to corners and top/base of backstrip.

Condition: Good. 8vo., 286 pp., Very Good, Blue Cloth on Grey Boards, Dust Jacket with light damage along spine, minor staining, small tears & rubbing on cover; shelf-wear. First American Edition.

First edition. 86 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a wrinkle and light rubbing to rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This true first edition, first printing (first impression) with the statement 'First Published 1937' to the title page. A good clean copy in a good jacket, not price clipped. rubbing and marks to jacket, wear to edges. Inscribed to the front end page by Edith Sitwell. [ To Vernon with fondest love from Edith, Xmas 1937]. Signed by Author(s).…

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Cover illustration by Isamu Noguchi. Includes contributions from Edith Sitwell, Paul Bowles, and others. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright. Stapled binding is sturdy. Covers are shelf rubbed and show some light wear around the corners and along the fold of the spine. A very well-preserved copy. From the collection of the Gotham Book Mart.…

Hardcover, octavo; blue cloth boards with black title label on spine and gilt lettering; 208pp. Minor wear; offsetting to endpapers with some light spotting to prelims; browned and spotted text block edges. Pink decorated dustwrapper, faded along spine and densely spotted on rear panel; mild chipping to edges. Very good and protected in archival film with white paper backing. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Pp. 161-340, 8vo, tan wrapper with yapp edges, text pages untrimmed and mostly unopened. A literary quarterly edited by T. S. Eliot during its entire run from October 1922 until it ceased publication in January 1939 ("Perhaps one of the most influential critical reviews of its day," Miller-Price 45). Contents include: translation of extracts from four letters by Tolstoy regarding Dostoevsky; a short story by Alexander Porterfield; Clive Bell on nineteenth-century painting; a poem by Edith Sitwell; three poems and a short story by T. S. Eliot. Also with reviews by Wyndham Lewis, Herbert Read, Harold Monro, F. S. Flint, Feiron Morris (pseud. Vivien Eliot), and others. A good, reasonably well-preserved copy overall; contents clean; wrapper age-toned and lightly soiled; wrapper yapp edges worn and frayed as usual, with some pieces missing, small library stamp on front of wrapper (no other ex-library markings).…

8vo., First Edition, page-edges browning as usual; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, backstrip faded else a good, firm, clean copy. Sound copy of Sitwell's wartime anthology aimed primarily at younger readers. Fifoot EB22.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 484pp. Previous owner's name in pencil. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Cloth DW (sl sunned) frontis + 264pp .Cover tips sl rubbed, otherwise Fine.

19x12.5 cm. 96 [xiv+82] pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover stained. Spine edges slightly worn. Binding visible between several pages. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition. The book is in : English French.

Condition: Good. First edition. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, paper title on upper panel with black cloth spine. Cover design by C. W. Beaumont. viii, 9 - 117, [3] pp.; publisher's two page list. Price label on front panel, ownership signature (F. Bridges / 1918) on front free endpaper; covers soiled and worn, edges of boards nicked in several places, internally clean, solid and unmarked, a good or better copy. First edition. Limited to 500 copies, the scarce second volume in the influential Wheels anthology series edited by Edith Sitwell. This volume marks a key early literary appearance of Aldous Huxley (contributing nine poems prior to his rise as a major novelist), alongside significant work by the Sitwell siblings-Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell; Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Helen Rootham. It also features a poignant posthumous war poem, "The Mad Soldier," by E. W. Tennant, who was killed at the Somme in 1916. FIFOOT EA2. Eschelbach & Shober 61. Gallup B2.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A delightful anthology of articles, poems, essays, stories and illustrations by a range of well-known contributors, edited by John Lehmann. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with thirty-six illustrations by a variety of artists including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Filippo de Pisis, Theophilus, and many others. Collated, complete. The scarce second volume of John Lehmann's two-volume Orpheus set, containing a selection of articles, poems, essays, stories and illustrations by a variety of authors. Contributors include Laurie Lee, George Barker, Edith Sitwell, Rex Warner, Michael Benthall, Lillian Bowes Lyon, Ronald Crichton, and many more. In the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart and bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting to the end papers. Dust wrapper remains bright, with a little chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Crease to the rear of the wrap. Near Fine. Pierre Bonnard; Henri Matisse; Pablo Picasso; Filippo de Pisis; et al. (illustrator). book.…

Limited Edition. Small Octavo. pp. x, 24. No. 33 of just 50 copies printed for the Double Crown Club. In paper covered boards with title to upper board. Internally clean and crisp, with noticable browning to spine. Very good overall. Together with an introduction and notes on the periodicals, as well as portraits of the authors by Albert Rutherston.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this collection of essays on the seven deadly sins, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.An uncommon work.Illustrated with a monochrome illustrated title page which is from a South German woodcut from 1414, and chapter illustrations which come from a 1480-90s coloured woodcut, all in one piece, entitled 'The Seven Deadly Sins and the Devil' from the Albertina collection in Vienna.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This work features a collection of essays on the seven deadly sins, written by a host of writers and edited with an introduction by Raymond Mortimer. The essays were first published in the 'Sunday Times' and aroused such interest that they decided to publish them in book form. The essays provide a witty modern analysis and study of the deadly sins and humanity. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with rubbing and slight bumping to the extremities. The wrap is generally smart with fading to the spine and extremities, edge wear, chipping and handling marks. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Near Fine. None stated (illustrator). book.…

SITWELL, Edith, ed. Wheels 1921 (Sixth Cycle). Orig. cloth-backed printed paper boards, paper spine label. London: C. W. Daniel, 1921. First edition. Fifoot EB8. The sixth and final installment of this experimental anthology to which all the Sitwells contributed; other poets include, inter alia, Aldous Huxley, Sherard Vines, and Alan Porter. With blindstamp to title page reading "presentation copy" though there is no other indication of presentation. Wear to spine label, boards lightly scuffed, else very good. …