Sitwell Osbert Editor (14 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fourteen short stories based on true crimes. First U.S. printing. Pages lightly tanned. Jacket rubbed and crimped, in Brodart.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xxxviii+308pp, b/w frontis, 15 b/w plates, a little rubbed along the edges. Extracts from the diaries & journals of Georgina Caroline Sitwell & Miss Florence Alice Sitwell. 750 grams.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Osbert Sitwell "Recollection of an Awkward Afternoon in Knightsbridge" / Malcolm Bradbury "The Criterion" / William Plomer "Tugela River" (poem) / Jeremy Gardner "The Spoiled Day" / Julian Mitchell "A Writer's Prospect - VII" / Elizabeth Jennings 2 poems / Roy Fuller "Some Vintages of Graves". …

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Paperback, G. 32pp, edges worn and spine repaired with archival tape, wrappers detached, first & last page tanned, otherwise contents in good order. A fair copy of a fragile item ( especially the wrappers which are prone to chipping & splitting ). The first issue of the short lived magazine which was introduced in 1919 by Harold Munro ( founder of the Poetry Bookshop ). 100 grams.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Paperback, G+. 24pp+4pp adverts, b/w illustrations, edges a little worn, contents in good order. A fair copy of a fragile item ( especially the wrappers which are prone to chipping & splitting ). An issue of the short lived magazine which was introduced in 1919 by Harold Munro ( founder of the Poetry Bookshop ). This issue contains 2 items, an essay by Aldington & a mime drama 'with copious notes' by Sitwell. 100 grams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in boards and dust jacket with light rubbing. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in.

245 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Black cloth decorated with yellow stamping to spine and front board. Staining to red top edge. Toning to front free endpaper verso (page 2) and Stravinsky portrait on opposing page 3 caused by laid-in June 16, 1957 New York Times Magazine article regarding the composer. Picasso's red-toned illustration bound-in between pages 136-137 matched by a laid-in duplicate with its bottom fore-edge corners creased. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Features essays by Edwin Corle, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Boris de Schloezer, Henry Boys, Eugene Goossens, Arthur Berger, Osbert Sitwell, Aaron Copland, Nicolas Nabokoff, Merle Armitage, Samuel Dushkin, Lawrence Morton, Robert Craft, Cecil Smith, David Hall. The book was designed by Merle Armitage. Includes photographs and illustrations by Edward Weston, John Vachon, Arnold Newman, Antonio Frasconi, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Russell Cowles, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Marc Chagall, P.G. Napolitano, et al.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages Kenneth Clark "On The Development Of Miss Sitwell's Later Style" / Osbert Sitwell "Father And Son" / Martin Turnell "Novelist-Philosophers-XI: Strendhal-I" / C Day Lewis And Edith Sitwell And Stephen Spender (poetry) (U.P.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue Printed Wrappers. Slight Usage, No Marks.

Soft cover. Condition: Good-. 1st Edition. 46 issues of the magazine each of 26 pp + ads. Pages tanned, covers marked, staples rusted study copies - Packed weight around 5Kg will need extra postage.

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: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 245 Pp. A Much-Enlarged Edition Of Armitage's 1936 Book, Which Was The First English Language Book About Stravinsky, With Much New Material Added. Black Cloth Printed In Yellow. End Sheets By Carlos Dyer And Edward S. Stevens Jr. Designs And Drawings By Merle Armitage And Executed By Al Ewers. Portrait Photographs By Edward Weston, John Vachon, Fred Plaut, Arnold Newman; Portraits Of Stravinsky By Klee, Pablo Picasso, Russell Cowles, J E Blanche, Marc Chagall, Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano; Drawings By Carlus Dyer And E S Stevens. Inscribed From Merle Armitage, His Wife And His Daughter To Dorothy (Brett). "Editor And Book Designer Merle Armitage Wrote A Book About This Time In New Mexico. Taos Quartet In Three Movements Was Originally To Appear In Flair Magazine, But The Magazine Folded Before Its Publication. This Short Work Describes The Tumultuous Relationship Of D. H. Lawrence, His Wife Frieda, Dorothy Brett And Mabel Dodge Sterne, A Wealthy Patron Of The Arts. Armitage Took It Upon Himself To Print 16 Hardcover Copies Of This Work For His Friends. Richard Pousette-Dart Executed The Drawings For Taos Quartet That Was Published In 1950." (Wikipedia). A Near Fine Example With Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Complete, Not Price Clipped, No Fading, Slight Browning And Faint Splash Marks On Spine Panel, 1/4" Closed Tear At Center Of Top Edge Of Spine. Inscribed by Author(s). …

12mo, 1 p. Nine lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Docketed in pencil on reverse 'R. A. Bennett re T. P. O'Connor'. He is enclosing 'the promised note to "T. P". I see that he is ailing and going to the Riviera at an early date, so you had better try and catch him at once.' Bennett had to get the recipient's address from his publishers, as O'Connor left without passing it on. …

First Edition. 51 issues, with nos. 93&94 and 120&121 released as double-issues, all softcovers. 51 Octavos (21cm); pictorial paper wrappers; black-and-white and colorful photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Full pagination available upon request. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Edward Michael Mendelson (pseud. Nathaniel Tarn), with his ownership to title pages of nos.61-67, and his occasional pencilled notes to interior, and occasional inked and pencilled notes to rear wrapers. All issues lightly tanned, with modest shelf-wear and -soil, and tiny tears to edges; overall Very Good. U.K. liteary magazine published from 1939 to 1950. Fifty-one issues include contributions by Raymond Mortimer, Edmund Wilson, Edward Sackville West, Robert Penn Warren, Ian Fleming, and Christopher Isherwood. [88805]. …