Sacred & Profane Love by SITWELL, Sacheverell - 1940

Faber and Faber, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. First Edition. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately foxed, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Small pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Deckled bottom edge to textblock. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Spine and edges are heavily tanned. Fading to lettering on spine. Visible marks overall. Book has a slight forward lean.

Faber and Faber, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1940. First Edition. 317 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Ex Libris plate to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine.

London: Faber & Faber, 1940. Cloth . Fair/No Jacket. Octavo in pink/orange cloth with heavil darkened spine. Chipping & wear to top & bottom of spine. Faded gold lettering within tooled heart on spine. Heavy foxing & spotting to end pages. Top textblock edge tinted black with streaks of discoloration. Cocked spine. Dustjacket is missing. [317 pages]

Faber and Faber, 1941T. hardcover. Good. 1.3000 8.6000 5.6000.

London, Faber and Faber, 1940. xvi+318pp. 8vo, illustrated, original pink cloth boards in dustwrapper, a very good copy . First edition

Faber and Faber, 1940,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xvi,317pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges foxed and browning, text clean and sound, pink cloth, some brown spotting on boards, Good condition in rubbed and frayed dustwrapper, spine faded .

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Firmly bound, salmon pink cloth boards, a little darkening and rubbing on the spine. Foxing on closed page edges. No jacket, no writing inside.

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London: Faber & Faber, 1940. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, pink clothbound boards fair but with some spotting and fading, silver spine titling (on red heart) faded; guttering weak, otherwise text block firm, untrimmed pages good but with occasional pencil markings and typed note glued to p303. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (1897 - 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. He described this book as a banquet of the five senses and hopes in this statement of his theme to have achieved a work of literature. And with 8 full-page plates + 16 small engravings in the text The full-page illustrations include two of William Blake's Surinam engravings.

London: Faber and Faber, 1940. salmon cloth a bit soiled with age, text clean and sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.