Sitwell Edith Foreword (7 results)

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 38pp. Originally published in 1981. Paper just beginning to tone. Tiny name at head of first page.

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".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing. 96pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards with titles front and spine. 8vo. Boards very slightly discoloured around edges. Hint of toning to text block edges and endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little browned and lightly rubbed at extreme edges. Third collection of poetry from one of America's foremost ballad-makers of the second half of the 20th century, steeped in the context of its time and place.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First edition, American issue. London / New York: J. M. Dent / New Directions, 1956. NOT a library discard. Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. The jacket is intact, but sun darkened a shade or two at the spine (all lettering remains clear and distinct). NOT price clipped ($8.50). Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1956. First Edition, American issue with "New Directions" at the foot of the jacket's spine. Illustrated with 16 plates on glossy stock. Foreword by Dame Edith Sitwell. This is a full scale, fully descriptive bibliography in the Soho and Pittsburgh style. Still the best reference on Dylan Thomas. Bound in the original olive cloth, stamped in bright gold over a red panel on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. First edition, American issue. Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 143pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small scrape on spine and slight bumping to bottom corners. Small stain on bottom of page edges. Pages clean and unmarkede. First printing. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First edition, UK issue. London / New York: J. M. Dent / New Directions, 1956. NOT a library discard. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is intact, but slightly sun darkened at the spine (all lettering remains clear and distinct). Price clipped, with $8.50 ink stamp on front inner flap. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1956. First Edition, British issue with "Dent" at the foot of the jacket's spine. Illustrated with 16 plates on glossy stock. Foreword by Dame Edith Sitwell. This is a full scale, fully descriptive bibliography in the Soho and Pittsburgh style. Still the best reference on Dylan Thomas. Bound in the original olive cloth, stamped in bright gold over a red panel on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. First edition, UK issue. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 143pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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.