Sitwell Edith Introduction (19 results)
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York NY, 1960
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Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.Gibson's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First American Edition. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine is faded and worn ; 286 pages.
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paperback. Condition: As 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.
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
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Hardcover. 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.
The Isles of Greece and Other Poems
Capetenakis, Demetrios; Sitwell, Edith (introduction); Sherrard, Philip (foreword)
Language: English
Published by Denise Harvey & Company, Athens, 1987
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Add to basketPrinted Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 38pp. Originally published in 1981. Paper just beginning to tone. Tiny name at head of first page.
Published by PL Editions, London, 1946
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Add to basketHardcover. 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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Add to basketHardcover. 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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Add to basketHardcover. 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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Add to basketHardcover. 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
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Add to basketHardcover. 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
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean tight copy in a very good slipcase with some spotting. First Folio edition; 1994. Black and white illustrations throughout. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LO…CATED 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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Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.Rose's Books IOBA
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Trade 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.
More imagesADVENTURES OF THE MIND: From The Saturday Evening Post
Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler, editors; Introduction by Mark Van Doren; contributions by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Walter Gropius, Clement Greenberg, Fred Hoyle, Aaron Copland, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Loren Eiseley, Jacques Barzun, Paul Tillich, Edith Hamilton, Edith Sitwell, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Read, Hans Selye, S. I. Hayakawa, James R. Newman, Martin Cyril D'Arcy, D. W. Brogan, William S. Beck
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Adventures of the Mind: From The Saturday Evening Post. Edited by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Fourth Printing,… January 1960. 285 pages. A remarkable mid-century anthology bringing together major figures in science, philosophy, literature, history, religion, architecture, modern art, music, linguistics and cultural criticism. Originally drawn from essays appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, the collection provides a compelling snapshot of American intellectual culture at the close of the 1950s. The volume opens with an introduction by Mark Van Doren, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and celebrated longtime Columbia University professor. Of particular historical interest, Mark Van Doren was the father of Charles Van Doren, the Columbia academic who became a national television celebrity as a contestant on NBC's Twenty-One before becoming the central figure in the celebrated television quiz-show scandal. Charles Van Doren publicly admitted before a congressional committee on November 2, 1959, that he had participated in the deception surrounding the program. This copy is the January 1960 fourth printing, placing its production only months after Charles Van Doren's congressional confession and at a remarkable moment in the history of the Van Doren family's public reputation and American intellectual culture. The connection is contextual rather than associative: Charles Van Doren did not contribute to this volume, but his father Mark supplied its introduction. The juxtaposition is particularly interesting because Adventures of the Mind celebrates intellectual inquiry and presents serious ideas to a broad popular audience—the same period in which Charles Van Doren's television fame had transformed a young Columbia scholar into a nationally recognized symbol of intellectual achievement. Mark and Charles Van Doren Historical Context Mark Van Doren was one of the distinguished American literary scholars of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and longtime professor of English at Columbia University. His son Charles Van Doren was likewise a Columbia academic when he became nationally famous through his appearances on the television quiz program Twenty-One. His apparent command of an extraordinary range of knowledge turned him into an intellectual celebrity during the 1950s. The story collapsed during the television quiz-show investigations. On November 2, 1959, Charles admitted before congressional investigators that he had been supplied questions and answers in connection with Twenty-One. His association with the scandal became one of the defining episodes in the early history of American television. The timing gives this particular printing an intriguing historical context: the copyright page identifies it as the Fourth Printing, January 1960, only a short time after Charles Van Doren's nationally publicized confession. No claim of ownership, provenance or direct association with Charles Van Doren is made; the significance is the documented father-son relationship and Mark Van Doren's role as the author of the introduction. Accordingly, this copy is accurately described as the Fourth Printing, January 1960, rather than a fourth edition. Please refer to photographs for additional condition detail; photographs form part of the description. .The January 1960 printing also places the volume at an extraordinary moment in the history of the Van Doren family, appearing shortly after the 1959 congressional testimony of Mark Van Doren's son Charles during the notorious television quiz-show scandal.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1960
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Add to basketHardcover. 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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Add to basketHardcover. 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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Add to basketHard 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 Society edition
Sitwell, Edith (Introduction by Mervyn Horder; Roland Pym, illus.)
Published by The Folio Society, London,, 1996
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Add to basketSecond 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.
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Cecil Beaton. With a preface by Dame Edith Sitwell and an introduction by Christopher Isherwood.
Published by London House and Maxwell., New York., 1964
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London House and Maxwell. New York. 1964. First American edition. First published in Britain in 1963. Hardback, small quarto; black cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. [64 pages]. 60 photographic illustrations. English. 255x195mm. 0.45kg. Very good, in very good dust jacket; s…light shelf wear, a short 1cm closed tear at front top edge of jacket, laminate starting to lift at spine, price-clipped. Images is composed of sixty images by Beaton, created using an experimental technique of superimposing the same negative multiple times onto the print. The original photograph becomes blurred and multiplied, and a new image is created, pulsing with an inner life. Beaton experimented with portraits selected from his archive of negatives. Sitters given the Images-effect include Laurence Olivier, Fonteyn and Nureyev, Picasso, W.H. Auden, Albert Finney, Edith Sitwell, Francis Bacon, Mary McCarthy, Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, Truman Capote, Greta Garbo, Maria Callas, Giacometti and Lucian Freud. Landscapes, Kabuki actors, nudes, sheep, sun flowers and potatoes are also visually manipulated. Edith Sitwell provides the preface and Christopher Isherwood writes the introduction. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller. 1964. First American edition. First published in Britain in 1963.
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
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Add to basketFirst 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. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Add to basketLondon. 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.
