Five Variations on a Theme

A volume of poetry by Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964) who was a British poet and critic. First edition. Published by independent British Publisher Duckworth, founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth. Important in the development of English literature in the first half of the twentieth century, being the publisher of figures such as Virginia Woolf (Gerald Duckworth's half-sister), W. H. Davies, Anthony Powell, John Galsworthy and D. H. Lawrence. In original marbled boards with lettering in red with matching unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, in a lovely condition, dustwrapper smart but with very slight edgewear and slight marginal fading. Internally, firmly bound. Generally bright and clean throughout but with slight foxing to endpapers. Fine.