A Collection of Studies on the Life and Works of Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell; Richard Fifoot; Geoffrey Elborn; Richard Greene [editor]

Published by Rupert Hart-Davis; Sheldon Press; Peter Owen; Sinclair-Stevenson Peter Lang; Virago Press 1963-1997, London; New York, 1963

About this Item

A collection of smart volumes on the life and works of British poet and critic Edith Sitwell, with one signed volume. Six volumes. A collection of studies on the life and works of Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, a British poet and critic who was the eldest of the three literary Sitwells and a recipient of the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature. Her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its technique and craftsmanship. This collection contains: A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell, 1963. First edition, with three facsimile plates. Collated complete. Written by Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot, a British librarian who served as Bodley's Librarian, the head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford Edith Sitwell: A Biography, 1981. First edition, illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. Written by Geoffrey Elborn, a British biographer and scholar noted for his works on Edith Sitwell and Francis Stuart. Fanfare for Elizabeth, 1989. Later edition, illustrated with two plates. Collated complete. Written by Edith Sitwell. Collected Poems, 1993. Later edition. Written by Edith Sitwell. The Early Unpublished Poems of Edith Sitwell, 1994. First edition. Edited by Gerald W. Morton and Karen P. Helgeson. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell, 1997. First edition, signed by the editor to the title page. Edited by Richard Greene, an English poet, editor and biographer. All volumes are bound in the original full cloth binding other than The Early Unpublished Poems of Edith Sitwell which is bound in the original paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear and sunning to the extremities. The odd small closed tear to the panel edges of A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Collection of Studies on the Life and Works of Edith Sitwell
• Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis; Sheldon Press; Peter Owen; Sinclair-Stevenson Peter Lang; Virago Press 1963-1997, London; New York
• Publication Date: 1963
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: None
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed
• Signed: signed by author
• Book Type: book