Edith Sitwell Editor (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition; Cloth Hard Cover, 114 pages; No dust jacket; Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Francis Bacon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Penguin New Writing 1946. # 27 - Featuring Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Louis MacNiece, C. Day Lewis. Vintage Book The series, "Penguin New Writing" was a fine example of the literary periodical which ran from 1936 to 1950. It was edited by John Lehman, who exsablished a stout anti-Fascist tone in the series' early years. Many authors of notable repute have appeared in its pages, including George Orwell, W. S. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, C. Day Lewis, and Edith Sitwell. In this issue, Number 27 of the series, we find works by Edith Sitwell; her brother, Osbert Sitwell; Louis McNiece; C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender; Annabel Farjeon and many of other fine writers. As well as the best of the New Writing, there are reproductions of then-new works of art by the likes of Robert Medley, Michael Ayrton, Laurence Gowing (all in color); and monochrome reproductions of works by Roger Furse, Gordon Herickx, and John Melville. There are, as well, half-tone photographs of contemporary plays in production. All-in-all a remarkable issue CONTENTS: - How Clarys Died . by William Sansom - Casket Letter No. 2 . by Edith Sitwell - The Lady in the Stone . by Anabel Farajeon - Three Poems . by Louis MacNiece - When the Wind Blows . I by Frank Sargeson - Two Songs . by C. Day Lewis - Second-Lieutenant . by J. Maclaren-Ross - Meeting . by Stephen Spender - Life Line . by Jim Phelan - Death, is it You? . by Eric White - Nocturne . by W. F. M. Stewart - Sestina . by John Heath-Stubbs - Landfall in Unknown Seas . by Allen Curnow - Education on the Air . by Radio Critic - Wilfred Owen . by Osbert Sitwell - Movements in the Underground . by John Hampton - London Theatre : 1918 and 1945 . by Stephen Potter - From a Painter's Notebook - IV -Indefinite Leave . by A. C. Ritchie - My Right Leg Was Germany . by Bernard Evslin - All This is Ended The Penguin New Writing 27 Edited by John Lehmann Published by Penguin Books, London April , 1946 First Edition Small literary periodical in paperback format; contains black-and-white half-tone photographs and color plates; 192 pages ; 4 3/4" x 7 1/4"; pictorial wraps, glued (paper covers) CONDITION : GOOD PLUS ONLY -Previously owned with the following noted: EXTERIOR - Exterior worn, with moderate surface rub - smudging and spotting - a crease to the rear cover - abrasion to spine and spine folds - corner bumps - else presentable BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - Paper is toned - bumps with accompanying creasing to a few top corner tips - else clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. George Barker "Epitaph (poem)" / Tom Hopkinson "You Really Are a Pet" / C Day Lewis "Ariadne on Naxos (poem)" / David Conde "Harvest Home" / Thom Gunn "Thoughts on Unpacking (poem)" / Edith Sitwell "Coming to London - XIV" / 3 poems by Bernard Spencer / Elizabeth Bowen "Persuasion" / Louis MacNiece "Lost Generations?" / A Letter from Geoffrey Moore.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Like Slipcase. Roland Pym (illustrator). First Edition. handsome copy. introduction by mervyn horder.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair+. No Jacket. blue cloth boards, discoloured spine and cover, spine loose, tear at back, owners name on front inside cover. some of the authors own poems present, intended for children, a collection of nursery rhymes and poems from the schoolroom. very good collection. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 112 pages. Edith Sitwell "A Young Girl's Song" (poem) / William Sansom "Question and Answer" / Thom Gunn - 2 poems / Eugene Walter "Love with a Drum" / Jean Ferry "Four Stories and a Foreword" / Eleanor Farjeon "Edward Thomas and Robert Frost" / Maurice Cranston "Simone de Beauvoir" / Geoffrey Hill "Letter from Oxford".

First printing. Very Good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 72 pages. The ironic hero by W. H. Auden - Adolphe, or the misfortunes of sincerity by Maurice Blanchot -- The lesson and the secret by Lionel Trilling - Arnold schoenberg's survivor from Warsaw or the possibility of 'committed' art by Rene Leibowitz - The good novelist in 'the good soldier' by Mark Schorer - Poems by edith sitwell and patrick kavanagh review by Jean Howard - Correspondence from edward glover, eleanor fox and greek cypriots.

Paperback. 160p. + 16p. illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 149 pages. Sketches for an autobiography / Edward Sackville-West -- A small world / William Sansom --Dreams of a summer night / George Barker -- Pages from an essay on Dorothy Osborne / David Cecil --Dirge for the new sunrise ; The canticle of the rose / Edith Sitwell -- La tragedie de Guy de Maupassant / René Dumesnil --The Meeg / Philip O'Connor -- Reflections ; The risen sun ; She said ; A daydream / Walter de la Mare -- The innocent / Graham Greene --Benvolio : the "cousin" theme in the early novels of Henry James / S. Gorley Putt -- Les roses de Noel ; Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux / Louis Aragon ; translated by Frances Cornford -- Oak and olive : being pages from Great morning. I, Mark Kirkby ; II, Montegufoni / Osbert Sitwell -- Humming birds / Anthony Rye --The Daniells / Stephen Bone -- White temple by the sea / Joseph Chiari --Doctor Johnson in his relations with women / Margaret Lane -- Airgraph I / Geoffrey Parsons -- Winter encounter ; The letter bearer / W.H. Osborne --The innumerable laughter / Ethel Wilson -- Joyce's progress / Henry Reed --Drunken ship / J.N.A. Rimbaud ; translated by George Duncan Painter. (U.P.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 126 pages. Egon Holthusen "Meaning And Destiny In European Literature" / Yves R Simon "To Be And To Know" / Geoffrey H Hartman "Virginia's Web" / Ralph J Mills, Jr "The Poetic Roles of Edith Sitwell" / Alfred Werner."Modigliani as an Art Student" / Julian Mitchell "A Sign Of The Times (fiction)" (U.P.).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Signed by the Editor, Edith Sitwell, on verso of copyright page. No other markings in book. Binding is fine. Bump to bottom corner tips. Page 705 had a tear across the page which was taped by a previous owner, with some words missing. The tape browned and left brown stains on the previous page and the page after. 1,092pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 51 page introduction by Edith Sitwell. Dust jacket designed by Ralph Mabey (price clipped; few nicks; tears; creases). Very good. 286 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 2,000 copies issued. Fifott, EB50.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xxxii, [2], 35-208. Preface and notes by the editor, Edith Sitwell. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine over black title-block. Clean throughout. In the dust jacket, which shows light edgewear. A notably fresh copy with dust jacket now housed in a clear, removable archival protector.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 76 pages. Edith Sitwell "The Coat Of Fire" / Bertrand Russell "The Outlook For Mankind" / Angus Wilson "Crazy Crowd" / Robin Ironside "Balthus" / Lionel trilling "The Princess Casamassima" / Rex Warner "Where Shall John Go? XV-Greece".

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Keith Vaughan (dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 175. Illustrated with two leaves of black & white photo reproductions. Red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine. Spine titles a bit rubbed. Discreet bookplate on the front pastedown. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, flap price 10s. 6d. intact, showing slight edge-wear. Fourth installment of Lehmann's hard-back periodical, a well-curated miscellany of British, Dominion and foreign writing. Includes work by Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Jirí Mucha, et. al. Produced under wartime economic restrictions, the inferior paper has darkened but the text remains bright. The dust jacket has a superb Blake-ian illustration by Keith Vaughan. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated). 8vo. 19 page preface by Edith Sitwell. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket designed by Keith Vaughan (unclipped). Very good. 208 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Fifoot EB30. Includes poems of Whitman, Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke, et al. Prose pieces of Melville and William Bartram.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 72 pages. John Arlott "Cricket At Worcester: 1938" (poem) / Robin Ironside "The Art Criticism Of Ruskin" / G W Stonier "Trailing Clouds" / Seumas Boy Phelan "Naughty Mans" / Peter Quennell "Boswell's Progress - III" /D Martens "The Poet And The Revolution" / Poetry by Louis MacNiece / Stephen Spender "Lines For Edith Sitwell" (poem).

Condition: Good. Bound in printed wraps. 8vo. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches. 76 pp. A review of literature & art. Contributors include Balthus, Bertrand Russell, Edith Sitwell, Philip Toynbee.Chipping to spie, some soiling of cover. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Vorticist cover drawing by Laurence Atkinson. Uninscribed. Covers have rubbed corners. End papers by Don Alvaro de Guevara.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Alec Buckels, Roy Meldrum, etc, (illustrator). 1st Edition. 220 pages with 8 tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations, full page and smaller and head & tail piece, original cloth boards with design taken from a 15th century ornament, part of the front wrapper tipped in to FFEP, small inscription ""Barbara Wigley, Christmas 1923", light and minor handling, brown spot to the very edge of some pages, slightly seen when opened, the cloth on the covers have faded at the spine and edges and a small dark spot on the spine noticed. Very good+. Quarto. *A superior style young readers Christmas annual.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Sixteen Issues, First Printings. From The Library Of Ian Ballantine, Then The American Representative For Penguin Books, Prior To His Founding Of Ballantine Books. The Issues Contain A Mixture Of Original Items And Reprints From Earlier Publication. All Are Near Fine Or Fine, Unread, No Marks. American Issue Dust Jackets Present On #6, #7, #8, (With 25 Cent Prices On Front Flap, List Of "Recent American Releases" On Rear Flaps, Flight To Victory Ads On Rear Panels), All Near Fine Or Fine Except 23 Which Has A 1" Open Tear At Bottom Of Spine Panel, 31 Which Is Worn And Only Very Good, And 33 Which Has Slight Rubbing At Corners. A Few Issues With Ballantine's Tiny Handwritten Editorial Note "Anthol 436" At Upper Left Corner Of Front Cover, No Other Marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Harry Rountree, Alec Buckels, Hugh Chesterman, etc. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 220 pages with 8 tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations, full page and smaller and head & tail piece, original cloth boards with design taken from a 15th century ornament, part of the front wrapper tipped in to FFEP, light and minor handling, a corner piece at outer corner of page 99/100, no loss of text, spine a little faded otherwise Very Good+. Quarto. *A superior style young readers Christmas annual. This 2nd annual has a short 17 page story by A. A. Milne written before his "Pooh Bear" books called "Prince Rabbit" and a short story by G. K. Chesterton "The Dragon at Hide and Seek" a story long out of print and a first printing here.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.149; [3]. Publisher's white cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of eight shillings and sixpence net to upper. Edges toned, top edge a little dusty, offset toning to endpapers. Dust-jacket a little worn to extremities, some closed tears and chips, splash mark to upper. Very good. A Miscellany.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 82 illustrations by Michael Rothenstein, Diego Rivera, Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Dufy, Rouault, Picasso and others; decorations by John Minton and Keith Vaughn. Original gilt stamped yellow cloth. Very good. 2 volumes. No dust jackets. With contributions by Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis, Rex Warner, Osbert Sitwell, Harold Acton, et al. From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate on the front pastedown of both volumes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1921 hardcover book with pictorial covers. 1st edition. Signed with homage by editor Edith Sitwell. The book is in very good condition. clean, square and tight. not foxed, no inscriptions (apart from Edith Sitwell's inscription). See photos. Postage quoted covers courier door to door delivery. DBL.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 72 pages. T S Eliot "On The Condition Of Man Today" / ; H Adler "Thornton Wilder's Theatre" / A J Ayer "Novelist-Philosophers V - Jean-Paul Sartre" / Edith Sitwell "Eurydice (poem) / Lehmann, John (poem) / Jacques Villon (3 paintings) / Memoirs Of The Late Princesse Edmond De Polignac.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Denton Welch (illustrator). A beautifully illustrated early edition of Maiden Voyage, Welch's lyrical and introspective coming-of-age novel set between England and Shanghai. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This is a scarce, second printing of this work.This volume is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel and the author's literary debut, documenting his surroundings and travels, from the bleakness of English institutions to the vibrant strangeness of expat life in China.This volume features detailed designs for the title page and section borders created by Welch, including a drawn portrait frontispiece.Denton Welch (19151948) was an English writer and painter. Though he died young, he left a small but influential body of work. Maiden Voyage is widely considered his most famous and accessible book. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. The odd handling mark to boards. The odd slight spot of damp staining. Light soiling to perimeters. Spine slightly discoloured and faded. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Previous owner's inscription to verso of frontispiece. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned, more so to fore edges of first and last few leaves. One or two spots. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, 120pp. Stiff pictorial boards with black spine, shelf worn to edges and corners, a little grubby, lightly tanned but otherwise clean internally, light foxing to end papers, uncut pages.