A collection of eight works, comprising Left Hand, Right Hand [the complete five-volume set of his autobiography]; Collected Stories; The Four Continents; and Tales My Father Taught Me

SITWELL, Osbert

Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1945

London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1945 to 1962 (all but two are first editions; see below). Octavo, eight volumes, with plates in all volumes except 'Collected Stories'. Cloth; a near-fine run with excellent dustwrappers (spines of four tanned; front flap of five price-clipped; front flap of Great Morning, Laughter in the Next Room, and Collected Stories inkstamped 'Macmillan's Overseas Library'). Titles and publication dates for the autobiographies are Volume 1: The Cruel Month (1945, first reprint/ 1945); Volume 2: The Scarlet Tree (1946); Volume 3: Great Morning (1948); Volume 4: Laughter in the Next Room (1949); and Volume 5: Noble Essences (1950). The other titles and dates are Collected Stories (1953); The Four Continents, being More Discursions on Travel, Art and Life (1954, second reprint/ 1954); and Tales My Father Taught Me. An Evocation of Extravagant Episodes (1962). The group is offered together with a copy in uniform condition of a work by the author's brother Sacheverell: Splendours and Miseries, London, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1945 (fourth impression)/ 1943. [9 items]. Seller Inventory # 141812

Bibliographic Details

Title: A collection of eight works, comprising Left...
Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London
Publication Date: 1945
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.