Sitwell Edith Introduction (18 results)
The Isles of Greece and Other Poems
Capetenakis, Demetrios; Sitwell, Edith (introduction); Sherrard, Philip (foreword)
Language: English
Published by Denise Harvey & Company, Athens 1987
- Softcover
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United KingdomThe Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye
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Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 38pp. Originally published in 1981. Paper just beginning to tone. Tiny name at head of first page.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York NY 1960
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.Gibson's Books
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Swinburne: A Selection
Swinburne, Algernon Charles; Compiled And With An Introduction By Edith Sitwell
Language: English
Published by Harcourt, Brace, New York City, Ny 1960
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. [Vi], 286 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt, Grey Covers. First American Edition Indicated. Fine. Dust Jacket Priced $5.75, Light Wear, Fading To Background Color On Spine, Short Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel.
- Softcover
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paperback. Condition: Like New. First THUS. Publisher: Exact Change, Cambridge, MA, 2013. FINE in glossy pictorial wraps, as issued. Foreword by Edith Sitwell. First Softcover Edition Thus, First Printing.
Published by PL Editions, London 1946
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Edith Sitwell. Slim small octavo. Neat owner name on front fly. Dark orange cloth a bit toned at the edges of the front cover, endleaves very lightly foxed, a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket.
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1960
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- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Near fine with spine ends and corners lightly bumped in a good only chipped and worn dust jacket. Poetry.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York 1960
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition. 286pp. Owner's name penned on front fly, near fine in a very good dustwrapper with one inch loss on spine head with tape, tears on top edges. Poetry.
Published by Folio Society, London 1994
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open in illustrated slipcase; about new. ; 268 pages. Illustrated by Roland Pym (illustrator).
Published by Folio Society, London 1994
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open in illustrated slipcase; about new. ; 268 pages. Illustrated by Roland Pym (illustrator).
More imagesEnglish Eccentrics (Folio Society)
Edith Sitwell, introduction by Mervyn Horder, illustrated by Roland Pym
Published by Folio Society 1994
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean tight copy in a very good slipcase with some spotting. First Folio edition; 1994. Black and white illustrations throughout. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE…LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
Published by J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia & New York 1961
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- First Edition
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.Rose's Books IOBA
Contact seller1-star sellerTrade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961. First edition. 8vo. Trade paperback, 189 pp. Older unread paperback, tiny stain to bottom of half-title, toning and rubbing to rear cover. Good.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York 1960
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- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Light sunning along top edges of boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a sunned spine, a few nicks and short tears, and moderate soiling on the rear panel.
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1963), London 1963
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Black cloth covers, gilt printing to the spine. This is an ex-library copy with minimal marks- stamps to the rear endpages and rear flap of the dust jacket. About Very Good in a near very good price-clipped dj with some chipping at edges.
Published by Folio Society, London 1994
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Hard Back. Condition: Fine. No Jacket Issued. Folio Society. Fine book in a fine slipcase Size: 9" x 5 1/2". Roland Pym (illustrator). Book.
English Eccentrics; Folio Edition
Edith Sitwell, Introduction by Mervyn Horder, Illustrations by Roland Pym
Language: English
Published by Folio, London 1999
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HardBack. Condition: Very Good. 4th Printing Thus, Folio 1999. Frontispiece and many full page plate illustrations by Roland Pym. Appears as new, unopened and unread, excellent clean tight sound square, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in excellent silver lettered racing green cloth, backed ov…er green and silver illustrated boards, great shelf presence. Housed and protected in original dusted green slipcase.
English Eccentrics - Folio Society edition
Sitwell, Edith (Introduction by Mervyn Horder; Roland Pym, illus.)
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1996
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Second printing. Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in decorated papered boards with navy blue cloth spine and silver-gilt spine-titling; 268pp., with a woodcut frontispiece and 16 plates and decorations likewise; blue endpapers. Near fine in pale blue slipcase with mild sunning at front fore-edges. Postage quoted is for a standar…d format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, states Dame Edith Sitwell, because of "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birthright of the British nation." Originally published in 1933, The English Eccentrics has lost none of its vitality and wit. We find hermits, quacks, mariners, indefatigable travellers, and men of learning. We meet the amphibious Lord Rokeby, whose beard reached his knees and who seldom left his bath; the irascible Captain Thicknesse, who left his right hand, to be cut off after his death, to his son Lord Audley; and Curricle Coats, the Gifted Amateur, whose suit was sewn with diamonds and whose every performance ended in uproar. This is a glorious gallery of the extremes of human nature, portrayed with humour, sympathy, knowledge, and love.
More imagesTHE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
AUDEN, W. H.; CONNOLLY, Cyril; LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick; SITWELL, Edith; SYKES, Christopher; WAUGH, Evelyn; WILSON, Angus; introduction by MORTIMER, Raymond
Published by London: Sunday Times Publications Ltd. 1962
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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First collected edition and first edition in book form. Publisher's original red boards with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Title page and chapter heading illustrations from woodcuts. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.… Complete with the very good rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is a little toned to the spine and panel edges and with a single short closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel. Not price-clipped (15s 0d net to the lower front flap). A collection of essays by notable writers, assembled on the prompting of Ian Fleming, each offering a reflection on one of the Seven Deadly Sins. First published in the Sunday Times newspaper in January 1962, this first edition in book form followed in October the same year. (Bloomfield and Mendelson B78a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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London. Chatto & Windus. 1920. 4to. Original red buckram, printed paper spine label; pp. ix, [iii], 33, [iii]; photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; slightly sunned, label toned but legible, corners and extremities rubbed, spine chipped at head and foot, some browning to endpapers, light abrasion to front pastedo…wn (erased old inscription 'Esme .'); a very good copy; half-title inscribed by Edith Sitwell to Joseph Cohen ('For Joseph Cohen | who protects this great poet | in memory of a most |happy evening'), dated 9 April 1957, from Cohen's library with his small printed shelflabel to rear pastedown, two loosely inserted printouts, highlighted and annotated on 'Dulce et decorum est' and on the present edition of Owen's poems presumably in Cohen's hand. A remarkable association copy of the first collection of Wilfred Owen's poetry, widely considered the finest poems to emerge from the First World War, this copy inscribed by Edith Sitwell, the volume's acknowledged though uncredited editor, to Tulane University professor Joseph Cohen (d. 2013), scholar of First World War poetry. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) died one week before the Armistice, his mother reportedly receiving news of his death as bells were tolling to announce the war's end. Only four of his poems were published during his lifetime, but he is best remembered for a group of poems mostly written between August 1917 while he was being treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh (where he met Siegfried Sassoon), and his return to the front line in France in early summer 1918. This slim volume appeared two years after Owen's death and is at once marked by friendship and loss. Sassoon's heartfelt introduction remains one of the finest early tributes to the poet: 'The importance of his contribution to the literature of the War cannot be decided by those who, like myself, both admired him as a poet and valued him as a friend. [.] I can only affirm that he was a man of absolute integrity of mind.' This is followed by Owen's own brief preface, found 'in an unfinished condition, among [his] papers': Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of War.The Poetry is in the pity. When Edith Sitwell, who had never met Owen (but had published seven of his poems in the November 1919 issue of Wheels, dedicated to his memory), expressed a wish to edit a selection of Owen's work, Sassoon, 'stirring himself at last, insisted that Owen had wished him to do this' (Egremont). Owen's mother sent any manuscripts she could find, but 'the rush of Sassoon's life [soon] intervened'. In January 1920 he went to New York, leaving the material with Sitwell, having done no work on it. The slim volume that appeared in December 1920 includes a brief acknowledgment: 'For the preparation of this book thanks are primarily due to Miss Edith Sitwell.'Sassoon later conceded that Sitwell had done all the editing, blaming her for the volume's shortcomings. This copy is inscribed by Sitwell "For Joseph Cohen / who protects this great poet / in memory of a most / happy evening, the 9th of April / 1957, from Edith Sitwell." No other copies inscribed by Sitwell have been traced in commerce. Cohen, a scholar of First World War poetry and biographer of Isaac Rosenberg, was a professor at Tulane University. In 1965, a year after Sitwell's death, Cohen published the influential article 'Owen Agonistes' (English Literature in Transition, 1965, later issued in pamphlet form) which sought to uncover what described as a 'conspiracy' of silence regarding Owen's homosexuality. His work on Owen can be seen as a reaction against Sassoon's claim in the introduction '[a]ll that was strongest in Wilfred Owen survives in his poems; any superficial impressions of his personality, any records of his conversation, behaviour, or appearance, would be irrelevant and unseemly.' We have been unable to find any record of other copies inscribed by Sitwell. White.
