Sitwell Osbert Piper John (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Piper (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. 324pp including index; octavo. Illustrated by half-tone plates, many of paintings by John Piper. The third volume of the author's autobiography Left Hand, Right Hand. Weysprings Books is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and subscribes to the Association's Code of Ethics.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1946 1st Edition MACMILLAN & Co Hard Back Book. Very Good Condition Book slight edge / shelf wear minor bumping to the corners of the boards. Pages are clean and tidy, the binding tight. Good Condition unclipped dust jacket some age & shelf wear, couple small closed tears the edges.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Piper (illustrator). First Edition. THE SCARLET TREE. Osbert Sitwell. Macmillan & Co, London. 1946 First Edition 320pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in fine unmarked condition bound in original red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. The unclipped dust wrapper is typically sunned to the spine otherwise fine and complete. Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet (6 December 1892 - 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art and literature. Sitwell was born on 6 December 1892 at 3 Arlington Street, London. His parents were Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth baronet, genealogist and antiquarian, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta (née Denison). He grew up in the family seat at Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, and at Scarborough, and went to Ludgrove School, then Eton College from 1906 to 1909. For many years his entry in Who's Who contained the phrase "Educ: during the holidays from Eton." In 1911 he joined the Sherwood Rangers but, not cut out to be a cavalry officer, transferred to the Grenadier Guards at the Tower of London from where, in his off-duty time, he could frequent theatres, art galleries, and the like. Sitwell devoted himself to poetry, art criticism and controversial journalism. Together with his brother, he sponsored a controversial exhibition of works by Matisse, Utrillo, Picasso and Modigliani. The composer William Walton also greatly benefited from his largesse (though the two men afterwards fell out) and Walton's cantata Belshazzar's Feast was written to Sitwell's libretto. He published two books of poems: Argonaut and Juggernaut (1919) and At the House of Mrs Kinfoot (1921). In the mid-1920s he met David Horner who was his lover and companion for most of his life. When Sitwell's father died in 1943, and he succeeded to the baronetcy, he started an autobiography that ran to five volumes. The first volume, Left Hand, Right Hand proved to be his best work to date. The subsequent volumes were The Scarlet Tree (1946), Great Morning (1948), Laughter in the Next Room (1949) and Noble Essences: a Book of Characters (1950) all of which I am selling on this site. Ref Y4.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Piper (illustrator). First edition. Third volume in Osbert Sitwell's famous autobiography, a bright first edition, first impression. First edition of this autobiographical volume by Osbert Sitwell, volume three of his extensive autobiography Left Hand, Right Hand!complete in five, concerning an enjoyable period of his life, from the age of eighteen to the years leading to the World War I.Complete with price clipped dust wrapper. Featuring black and white full page plates reproduced by John Piper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine with minor mark to front board. Dust wrapper generally smart, price clipped with some age toning particularly to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. John Piper (illustrator). Second Printing. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1948. This is the third, of multiple volumes, of the autobiography of Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969), a man who evidently knew everyone of importance in England. This is a Near Fine copy of the Second Impression of the First Edition, from two months later. Bright orange cloth binding, with black and gilt on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Clean text; 324 pages, includes appendices and index. Illustrated with photographs and eight commissioned paintings by John Piper. Minor scattered spotting, confined to endpapers and fore-edge. The dustwrapper is clipped and Very Good, some minor edgewear and soiling to the rear panel, which also has a closed tear. The dustwrapper has the caveat ".must not be circulated in the British Isles, the United States of America or Canada." Quercus ponders just where the market might have been for this book. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by John Piper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. John Piper (illustrator). 1st Edition. 113pp + xvi prelims. Printed on cream wove hand-made paper in a limited numbered edition of 1000 copies. This is copy #120. Bound in green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration on front cover. Green flecks on top page edge. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Red and yellow sewn headbands. Illustrations by John Piper, including frontispiece. Tightly bound. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down. Two original book shop labels on rear paste down - W. & G. Foyle Ltd and Selfridges Bookshop (both London). Unclipped light blue dust jacket with red lettering on face and on sun toned spine. Horizontal tear to spine of dust jacket and wear to top and tail of spine. Age toning to dust jacket margins. All now protected in clear archival wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London: Dropmore Press, (1949). First limited edition, first printing. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is markedly clean, with some toning at the edges. There is a slight soiling mark at the bottom of the spine. It has not been price clipped. The heavy boards are very near fine in the publisher's cloth and gilt tooling. Internally, the bookplates of Elizabeth Burton and Allen Freer are present on the front endpapers. Of the 1000 numbered copies, this is no. 535. The text blocks are speckled on the top edge but otherwise clean. The John piper illustrations are all present and wonderfully so. Overall, this is a near fine copy of a fine collaborative work. It was a nervous breakdown that drew Sir George Sitwell to Italy in the 20th century. And it was the incomparable gardens of Tuscany, Rome, and the Italian Lake district that inspired him to write his classic analysis of what he considered the timeless principles of garden design.

hard cover. Condition: good. [Left Hand Right Hand! ] 1945. Reprinted. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Top edge black. D.w.missing. Signed by John Piper on title page. xvi,271,(1)pp. With a b/w frontis, b/w plates (including illus.by John Piper), and a folding line of descent. Boards sl.stained. Spine faded. Fore and bottom edges somewhat foxing. Ink notation to front flyleaf. Margin of title pgae sl.stained. "Line of descent" folded at a corner. [The Scarlet Tree. ] 1946. d.w. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Top edge black. Signed by John Piper on title page. viii,318,(1)pp. With a b/w frontis, b/w plates (including illus.by John Piper). d.w.somewhat worn and chipped. Front and rear boards damp stained. Edgs sl.foxing. Hinges of p.318 darkened. [Great Morning. ] 1948. d.w. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Top edge black. Signed by John Piper on title page. Exlibris.(The Book Socirty) pasted on front flyleaf. viii,323,(1)pp. With a b/w frontis, b/w plates (including illus.by John Piper). d.w.somewhat stained and chipped. Spine faded. Edgs sl.foxing. Hinges of front e.p.torn and started (not detached). [Laughter in the Next Room. ] 1949. d.w. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Top edge black. Signed by John Piper on title page. viii,380,(1)pp. With a b/w frontis, b/w plates (including illus.by John Piper). d.w.somewhat worn and its spine sl.darkened. Front and rear boards sl.damp stained. Spine faded. Edgs sl.foxing. [f1303-171411].

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Piper, John (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited Edition, no. 251 of 1000 copies; signed by John Piper to ffep. [vi], xvi, 115 pp. Green buckram with gilt illustration to boards and lettering to spine in dust jacket. Scratching to front panel and a small open tear to top of rear panel; some foxing to sunned spine and top edge of rear panel of jacket. Leaves uncut and a firm binding. Inscription from John and Myfanway Piper dated to 1949. Colour lithographic illustrations and decorations by John Piper. A foreword by the author's son Osbert Sitwell; the author was an expert in gardens, especially those in Italy, and this book represents his analysis of the principles of their design. 8vo. Limited Edition.