Sitwell Edith Edited By (28 results)

1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hard cover book/ closed tears otherwise very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A clean and unmarked maroon-boards hardback with an unclipped dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable plastic cover. This nice copy has an "opened-only-a-few-times" look & feel. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship (tracking included) promptly from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied book customers since 1999.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover . Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. With 381pp - a good selection of poetry . HARD COVER, GOOD DUST JACKET, NO MARKINGS, BLANK END PAPER TORN WITH SLIGHT LOSS O/W GOO , EXCELLENT VALUE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 176 pages Illustrated Very Good + condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket Original owner's inscription on front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foreward by Sacheverell Sitwell. Introduction by Elizabeth Salter. Light offsetting to the end papers, foxing to the edges, very good or better in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear, toning, and rubbing.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 128pp. 16 plates. Wrappers. Illustrated in color and in black and white from photographs and reproductions. Pages age-toned and some wear along the spine, still very good. Contributions by Edith Sitwell, Denton Welch, Terence Tiller, James Stern, Peter Yates, and more. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, spine with a few tiny spots, boards with modest edgewear, very good in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket with a small round tear on the spine (affecting the title), tanning, an ink mark on the front flap and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition vintage book. Second impression including an acceptable dust jacket with loss and foxing. The contents are toned but clean. Aside from a shallow crack to the rear inner board hinge the binding is fine.…

Hardback. Edith Sitwell (Edited By John Lehmann And Derek Parker), Macmillan. Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears - dust jacket present with some edge wear and minor fading. Page Condition: good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact, hardcover binding in good condition. Stickers/Labels: None visible. This curated anthology of correspondence presents the brilliant and often acerbic voice of Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the twentieth century's most distinctive and flamboyant literary figures. Edited by John Lehmann and Derek Parker, the collection chronicles Sitwell's rich intellectual and personal life through letters written to friends, fellow writers, and contemporaries, including T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Evelyn Waugh. The tone is sharp, witty, and deeply personal, offering an unfiltered window into the mind of a poet who argued passionately for the avant-garde and refused to be constrained by convention. Each letter illustrates her formidable personality - her generosity, her feuds, her fierce aesthetic convictions - painting a vivid portrait of British literary culture across several decades. A treasure for admirers of modernist literature and those fascinated by the private lives of great writers. Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . B0007DXR0K Hardback. First American edition. Slight wear to corners and edges; Chinese ideogram stamped on front endpaper; minor browning to endpapers and to page edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. Dustjacket with minor wear to corners and edges; small chips out at top and base of spine; $3.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket; minor browning over all; Good condition. No Signature. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. 21.5x13.5cm. 75 pages, plus 4 pages of black & white reproductions of paintings by Andre Masson. Spine has a little damage at the bottom end. Clean. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F9149. Andre Masson (illustrator). …

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1941 first gollancz edition on blue cloith some browning to page ends.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First. Used hardback with dustwrapper. No torn or missing pages. Previous owner's name ffep. Small shop stamp inside front board. Some age spotting to closed edges. Dustwrapper is faded along the spine & has a closeable tear to top rear. A fascinating portrait of not only Edith Sitwell herself, but also of the world in which she and her brothers lived. 264 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001010.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Contains pages 1-61pp. Pictorial lime green wrappers. Spine lightly sunned, near fine. Contributions by Ned O'Gorman, James Broughton, Robert Stock, Philip Murray, Lisel Mueller, David Wright, Carolyn Kizer, Theodore Holmes, David Galler, Edith Sitwell, Rolf Fjelde, and Barbara Gibbs. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Poems by Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Alvaro Valez Ladron de Guevara, Sacheverell Sitwell,Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, Edith Sitwell. Corners worn, library markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This Is "A Programme Anthology Of The Poems Read By Their Authors" ."At The Poetry Reading In The Wigmore Hall September 14Th, 1943", Conducted As A Benefit. It Is A 47 Pp Booklet With A Full Page Of Acknowledgement At End, Stating That The Authors All Took Part In The Reading And Gave Permission For The Printing Of Their Poems. There Is Further Citation Of The Publishers For Particular Poems, And To The Authors Who Gave Permission To Print Copyright Material, And A Note That The Poems Of C Day Lewis Were Previously Unpublished, And Heart And Mind By Edith Sitwell Had Previously Appeared Only In The Times Literary Supplement. It Was Printed By Warren & Son, Winchester, But No Limitation Statement Or Price. The Compiler And Editor, Dorothy (Field) Dudley Short, Was The Author Of Children's Books And Books And Chapters Of Books On Sikhism, Reviews, Etc. She Was The Wife Of Caricaturist Norman Dudley Short. An Unused Example, One Of The Editor's Personal Copies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition hardback with dustjacket. DJ is chipped to corners and head and tail of spine, rubbed to rear. Very small previous owners name otherwise internally clean. Very good / good condition. Keith Vaughan (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition hardback with dustjacket. DJ is missing 1" section to top of spine and has a 2" tear to top, right corner. Internally clean, no damage. Very good / good - condition. John Minton Dustjacket (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition, published in March 1944 - an anthology of poems taken from New Writing. With a Foreword by the editor John Lehmann. ***Near fine in scarlet cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still quite bright. The boards are clean, with just a couple of small marks on the back board near the spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Page block edges nice and clean. Internally also near fine, with a neat ownership name to the top corner of the front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. No foxing. No creases or tears. No reading lean. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 8s. 6d. net, crossed through in pencil with 3/6 discounted price in pencil. The dustwrapper is largely complete, with just some loss at the top edge of the back panel. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed, with a couple of small closed tears. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Spine lettering slightly faded. The back panel is marked, being all white, but the dustwrapper is otherwise bright. ***189 pages. 205mm x 136mm. ***'The first volume of "New Writing", Mr. Lehmann reminds us in his introduction, was published in the Spring of 1936. Only two out of the twenty contributions in that volume were poetry, but during the ten years which have elapsed since then poetry has played a far greater and more important role, both in the six-monthly volumes published as books and in the more frequent volumes of "The Penguin New Writing" which began in 1941. Nearly all the significant poets of these years appeared in the pages of "New Writing", some of them for the first time and many with poems which are considered among their most memorable. "New Writing" has always been specially interested in those poems which are a mirror of the stormy epoch in which they are written; in translations from modern European poets; and in poems which are not too long for the average weekly or monthly; all these characteristics will be found in the present anthology, which stands also for judgement as a record of one man's taste and the encouragement he endeavoured to give to the making of poetry--to the building of dykes,--during ten years of flood weather.' (Quote taken from the flaps of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition, published to post-war economy standards, with an almost complete very fragile original dustwrapper. Uncommon thus. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background), and very slightly foxed at the edges. Tiny crease to the bottom corner of the front cover. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Small marks to inside of front cover and contents page, otherwise interior pages clean. The top corner tips of the last few pages are slightly creased. No tears. ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Series VI, No. 3. Cover Illustration by Jean Helion. Quarto. 50pp. Stapled wrappers. Wraps rubbed and moderately soiled, the front cover with several drink rings, rubbed and lightly creased along the spine, with small splits at the ends, about very good. Includes poems by Joe Massey and Maurice Ely Harper, as well as contributions by Donald Windham, Robert Melville, Paul Goodman, Edith Sitwell, and others. View was an avant-garde literary and art magazine by writer and artist Charles Henri Ford. Published in New York from 1940 to 1947, the magazine focused primarily on the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Series VII, No. 1. Cover Illustration by Isamu Noguchi. Quarto. 50pp. Stapled wrappers. Wraps rubbed and lightly soiled, with tiny splits at the spine ends, first page with 2½" x 3½" section torn out, else very good. Includes contributions by Kurt Seligmann, Charles Henri Ford, Edith Sitwell, Paul Bowles, and others. View was an avant-garde literary and art magazine by writer and artist Charles Henri Ford. Published in New York from 1940 to 1947, the magazine focused primarily on the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. 23x15.5cm. 80 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-fk.

First Edition (stated). SIGNED and DATED by Laurie Lee to the front free endpaper: 'Laurie Lee | Dec 31st 1958. Publisher's blue cloth with impressed motif to front board, gilt decoration and lettering to the spine partly within a framed light blue panel. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to the dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. xlii, 1092. Two scraps of paper laid in as bookmarks with a note in Laurie Lee's HANDWRITING. Laurie Lee contributes 'Day of These Days'. Jacket design by George Kelley. A book in Good only condition, with significant page-creasing in a Poor dust-jacket.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No. 1, Series III. Cover Illustration by Kurt Seligmann. Quarto. 38pp. Stapled wrappers. Wraps moderately rubbed, light edgewear, rubbed and lightly creased along the spine, very good. Includes a centerfold of drawings by Alexander Calder, as well as contributions by William Carlos William, Henry Miller, Robert Melville, Edith Sitwell, Man Ray, Paul Bowles, and others. View was an avant-garde literary and art magazine by writer and artist Charles Henri Ford. Published in New York from 1940 to 1947, the magazine focused primarily on the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene.…

First Edition (stated). SIGNED by (Dame) 'Edith Sitwell'. Publisher's blue cloth with impressed motif to front board, gilt decoration and lettering to the spine partly within a framed light blue panel. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to the dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. xlii, 1092. Jacket design by George Kelley. A book in Very Good condition in a Very Good dut-jacket. …

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 11 - September-October 1947 - the eleventh issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu - complete with three pages of colour lithographs by Ceri Richards - a centrefold double page colour lithograph, and two single page lithographs, inspired by and incorporating the Dylan Thomas poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower", plus a colour cover, with Lyre Bird design, by Henry Moore. ***Very good in the original thin colour-illustrated stapled card covers. The edges of the covers show some wear commensurate with age and handling and are slightly creased and rubbed, but the front cover illustration is bright and clean. The back cover is slightly discoloured marked and foxed at the edges (being a cream background). The bottom corner of the page block is slightly creased throughout. Staples rusted as usual. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions - just a small black contemporaneous bookseller's label to bottom of first page: 'G. R. Downing, Bookseller, Fore Street, St. Ives, C'. Pages sporadically lightly foxed. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. Lower corners of most pages also lightly creased. The three pages of colour lithographs, including the centrefold, are bright and clean, and are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on normal thick paper (not the thin postwar economy paper as used in comparative Issue No. 9). ***72 pages (plus PL adverts on inside of front cover, with facsimile of handwritten poem by Keith Douglas on inside of back cover). 246mm x 188mm. ***Contents: Keith Douglas: The Hand, John Anderson, Leukothea; Ronald Bottrall: Elegiacs; Bernard Spencer: Out of Sleep; Anne Ridler: Views of the North Coast; Patrick Evans: Christmas, Great Britain, 1941, Green Grass Growing; James Reeves: A Fairy Tale; Introspection; Lawrence Durrell: In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus; Kathleen Raine: Absolution; George Barker: Memorial Inscription; Keidyrch Rhys: 48 Hours at Tenby; Rainer Maria Rilke: The Duinese Elegies: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Elegy; Edith Sitwell: From a Canticle of the Rose: Hymn to Venus; George Scurfield: Song - The Bitter Mangoes; Hugh Gordon Porteus: The Oracles, Three Things; G. S. Fraser: The Death of My Grandmother, Song for Music; Pierre Jean Jouve: When Glory's Spring Returns, From Sueur De Sang; Stephen Coates: There was an Empty Place in the Grass; You are all Beautiful, who Fill my Terrible Dreams; John Heath-Stubbs: The Poetic Achievement of Charles Williams; Margaret Diggle: The Mathematics of the Soul. ***POINTS OF VIEW (Reviews): The Greek Anthology by Charles Williams; Auden up-to-date: by G. S. Fraser; The State of Modern Criticism by Nicholas Moore; Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Two American, One English by Julian Symons; A World Within a War by Kathleen Raine. Cover by Henry Moore. Lithographs by Ceri Richards. ***Vol. 3. No. 11 - the eleventh issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published in the early post-war period. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***This is the first of the postwar issues of Poetry (London) magazine, published after a three year hiatus from 1944 to 1947. Issue 11 was the third of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and the first with expanded content of 72 pages. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Henry Moore (Front Cover), Ceri Richards (Three centrefold lithographs) (illustrator).…