Edith sitwell ed (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: 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.…

Zustand: 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.…

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

Zustand: 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.…

Zustand: 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.

Soft cover. Zustand: 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).…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.…

Illustrated Boards. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 124, [2], 16 ads. pp. Colour illustrated boards over a brown cloth spine with title label; decorated endpapers. Marks to boards and wear to edges of boards, darkening to spine title label. Small split to front hinge, otherwise internally clean. 'Fifth Cycle' of the annual poetry anthology edited by Edith Sitwell, featuring her own poetry, that of her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, and others, in case including Aldous Huxley. Small 8vo.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Sole UK Printings published by Blackwell / C. Daniel in 1916-1921. Complete Series of 6 Volumes. All 6 BOOKS are in Very Good+ or better condition. Vols. 2-6 bear the bookplate of auctioneer and author Anthony Hobson with Vol. 6 coming direct from the Sitwell's library at Renishaw. Some age related markings and edge-wear to the covers, more-so to the earlier titles. Some toning to the page edges and text-block with some spotting in places. All copies are free from inscriptions. Striking cover artwork and end-papers ( to Vol.4) by former Vorticist artist, William Roberts to Vols. 4 and 6, and to Vol. 3 by Laurence Atkinson. The 1919 issue of 'Wheels : The Fourth Cycle', is dedicated to the memory of Wilfred Owen, M.C.'. This was the first publication to print seven of Owen's poems together for the very first time : 'The Show', 'Strange Meeting', 'Á Terre', 'The Sentry', 'Disabled', 'The Dead Beat' and 'The Chances'. Only five poems were published in Owen's lifetime (Three in 'The Nation' and two that appeared anonymously in the 'Hydra', a journal he edited in 1917 when he was a patient at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh). Owen's poems were not to be published as a complete volume until the following year in 1920, when they were published by Chatto and edited by Siegfried Sassoon. An important Modernist production being the first publication to print several of Owen's poems together for the very first time. In addition, this issues of 'Wheels' also featured the work of, among others, Aldous Huxley, Nancy Cunard, Iris Tree and the Sitwells'. All are protected in removable Mylar archival covers. Extremely scarce as a set in such collectible condition. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.…